I am a paying subscriber to Ed Zitron and I enjoy his writing a lot. He should at some point admit that not everything is bullshit and there is definitely a business model to it. It is fun to read, though
It's good to have contrarian viewpoints, but Ed Zitron is so blinded by his AI hate that his articles should be treated not just with skepticism, but heavy suspicion.
He has a fun writing style but has so many willful errors, and is so committed to one point of view regardless of the facts, that his writing seems kind of worthless.
I soured on him when he could not calculate cumulative revenue on an exponential curve, ignored everyone who showed him how to calculate it, and then kept writing that Anthropic’s revenue numbers are fake based on his inability to do math.
It’s too bad because any heavily hyped industry needs good critics (think Ida Tarbell to Rockefeller) but they should be honest critics, and he’s not, which really undermines not only his but others’ criticism of the industry.