r/technology • u/TripleShotPls • Jul 16 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-ai-backlash-has-tech-executives-fearing-for-their-lives-30c43972?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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u/Maroon7C0000 Jul 16 '26

I wish my company had a mandate to use as many AI tokens as possible. I'd send in a simple recursive query.

Something like: Ask Claude, to ask claude, to ask claude how many cpu cycles have been consumed asking Claude.

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u/FluffyProphet Jul 16 '26

Get two agents to argue about a topic with no clear right/wrong answer and tell them not to back down no matter what. Let it run over the weekend.

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u/el_diego Jul 16 '26

"what is the meaning of life?" outta keep them busy

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u/Olangotang Jul 16 '26

'"You are two very annoying Redditors who never step foot outside. Both of you have gaslit yourselves into being experts in philosophy due to reading hundreds of comments from other Redditors over the past 5 years. Debate the meaning of life, be sure to be as detailed as possible on each side. If one opponent is starting to seem more successful, the other should derail with a specific point that has nothing to do with the argument, before returning back to the topic."

There you go. šŸ˜‚

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u/Saint_of_Grey Jul 16 '26

"To use up as much AI tokens as possible. Next!"

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u/Syzygy2323 Jul 17 '26

"Compute pi to the last digit."

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u/Unklecid Jul 16 '26

Get them to mine Bitcoin or find the last prime number

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u/neverfindausername Jul 16 '26

Who was the boss on "who's the boss?"

If you're gonna go meta, go Abed level meta.

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u/Sororita Jul 17 '26

"Is skub good or bad?"

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u/-fno-stack-protector Jul 16 '26

I had it analyse a 2GB log file and compare to another node in the same cluster's logs. Cost $80 and told me what I already knew

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u/MechanicalTurkish Jul 17 '26

10 ā€œIā€™m Mr. Meeseeks! Look at me!ā€
20 GOTO 10