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The latest issue of Complex Machinery is out.

In "Take the agents shopping":

I talk about the (half-)joke that every genAI use case assumes that you're an idiot.

The problem? genAI companies are grasping for use cases and unable to relate to consumers. So they point the technology at non-problems in the hope that we get excited and buy in.

It's not working.

Also: an explainer on Google's rare 100-year bond.

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