varmoh.bsky.social
@varmoh.bsky.social
Content, Data Science, AdTech, ML/AI, Strategy, two times entrepreneur
It's here, it's now. WIP
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
And let Vance follow his boss tradition.. count us 3!
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
When the stock market trades at PE multiple of 50 or 100, it's great time for billionaire promoters to sell their stocks or raise debt on the high valuation. Money gets drained from stock buyers, mostly middle class. It's the great money transfer from middle class to elite (top 400).
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do.
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck.
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me.
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking.
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reposted
Carl from Internet of Bugs did a video on this (he actually uploaded a version that ONLY covered the SciShow video, but expanded to other YouTubers so people wouldn't think it was a problem unique to them:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
* Somehow continues to live while others do not
* Deeply untrustworthy, not because of duplicity, but incompetence
* Happily assists in fascist takeover
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
* Often incoherent, says worthless things that are interpreted as understanding by the naive or overly trusting
* Incompetent and occasionally dangerous, yet still somehow succeeds off the efforts of behind-the-scenes/uncredited competent people
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You're not noticing who's taking kickbacks or who's violating peoples human rights when you're busy praying.

They're shilling for a return to ignorance and obedience. Mostly obedience.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM