The weird jump at 1:08 makes me itchy after listening to the 9 minute version for so long

Turns out, when you piss away all of your company's public goodwill, and then start touting <blank> as the next big thing and everybody *has* to get on board.. the public will sorta make it their mission to ensure it flops

See also: web3, virtual workspaces, predatory VPNs, smart glasses, ai

As a mere bolt of fabric, is a scarf not the least elaborate solution?

Not to mention it sounds like the hypothetical friend is also working on a comp sci project, and odds are it's ai-based as well. Machines teaching machines, making for garbage all the way down.

What's the AI generating next in this example?? Does the AI intrinsically know cool places to go on campus, or is this guy fully about to recommend his friend some hallucinated nonsense?

One of the managers I work with has a great trick:

just drop from the meeting at the appointed time and leave a "sorry, had to drop" in the chat