[2001zhaozhao]

> But the conversation in the AI community is ignorantly staying at the level of “lol CEOs are dumb” rather than grappling with a very clear structural problem: the tools themselves are incentivized to make you feel good, the platforms built on those tools are incentivized to sell you scale, and the culture around both punishes skepticism.

This. So much this.

It's so hard to sell an agentic platform that's designed to push real work compared to one that is designed to look flashy. (Spoiler alert: the one that outputs real work is way more useful, way more difficult to build, and less flashy because they can't just sell pure fantasies like the idea of automated CEO/managers.)

It's not just the CEOs that have the psychosis problem, it's investors as well. And for even technical users it's hard to tell the difference, but comparatively it's much easier to sell AIs on actual merit to very technical people than to non-technical people.