Now you can pay them twice: once to access the tool to do your job and once to access the market for customers.

Definitely no reason to worry about an entrenched oligopoly there.

Arguably not so much with music anymore given the prolific nature of lossless DRM free downloads available for purchase.

Personally, I buy more music now than any other time in my life: high quality sources playable on all my devices.

I found "Better Offline" through "Tech Won't Save Us" where Ed is occasionally a guest. It also has some critical takes on technology if you are looking for more of that content.

> LLMs do not think

Yep.

More seriously, you described a great example of one of the challenges we haven't addressed. LLM output masquerades as thoughtful work products and wastes people's time (or worse tanks a project, hurts people, etc).

Now my job reviewing work is even harder because bad work has fewer warning signs to pick up on. Ugh.

I hope that your workplace developed a policy around LLM use that addressed the incident described. Unfortunately I think most places probably just ignore stuff like this in the faux scramble to "not be left behind".

So I guess there is no return to office for appointees.