> CLIs do not run on mobile and never will

Can you clarify why the never? What's the issue with giving a phone-based AI a sandboxed file system and bash shell?

How is the user installing the CLIs? Proprietary app store for each chat app?

Well, either that, or a fetish.

Hey, $10 is $10.

Honestly, given the potential impact on the job market, the fetish is far more honorable.

Did you mean that to sound distant? Because my reading is that if we have robots reliably doing these sorts of delicate tasks in a decade or two, it would be amazingly revolutionary and disruptive to the economy.

Concrete alone isn't enough, you also need to have it be enclosed in a Faraday Cage.

> true but misleading

It seems to me that for many newspapers the bar is now significantly lower, at something like "not quite entirely untrue"

Almost, but not entirely, quite unlike the truth.

Allegedly.

That was my feeling when I first heard about Lisp Machines. It's unfortunate that I never got to see or use one in person.

Well, to be fair, they didn't say "redesign" anywhere, and Webflow is the name of the company, so I don't find it too strange that the "evolution" of a company involves layoffs. Maybe I'm just too jaded to these "An update on ..." announcements, but this really didn't strike me as bad. At the very least, they announced the layoffs in the very first paragraph, rather than beating around the bush.

Alternatively, can you explain why you believe this statement reduces bad feelings? Put yourself in the shoes of those who have been laid off.

Defend your position, I’m tired of, and will not play defense.

Well, first of all, stop lying. These people aren't leaving the company. They were fired. They were removed. Leaving sounds voluntary.

Then, this might be a cultural thing, but I don't want niceties and flowery language. Give it to me straight. It's not "we're rebuilding". We're not rebuilding anything. We're broke. If you're broke just say that.

> How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?

Step 1, stop using AI as an excuse?

Step 2, don't use "leaving the company" as a euphemism for "getting laid off", as the former implies employee agency and choice they don't actually have.

The entire post is a green-beige sludge of corpspeak, euphemisms, and AI slop. Who fucking talks like this anyway?

Direct and to the point. This is the opposite of that.

That's on me; I set the bar too low. When I asked "How", I was hoping for someone to literally write up an alternative and better way of phrasing this, which would still work as part of a corporate press release.

And there's at least one more level of inception at the data center level, where they use AI to optimize power usage (particularly by predictively controlling cooling, and adaptively rescheduling tasks).

I actually had this happen to me the other day - I asked Claude Code to create an arbitrary example website for me, and it built one about lighthouses.