Both trending repositories in Github are related to "agentic companies", one of them being an orchestration for "zero-human companies", the other being some kind of generic marketplace for agentic skills, whatever that means

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[–] 76 points 8 months ago (10 children)

"zero-human companies" sounds so sad and dystopian, I have no idea why they think it's a good promo

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Tech bros are salivating at the idea. The generation of tech bros that brought us the "disruption" of taxis and hotels, by not hiring staff but instead paying gig workers horribly, now found a way to also let go all other office staff.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I can't tell if they haven't thought through what that would mean for them themselves, or they know it's BS but it's still good for marketing.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Tech bros have been moving fast and breaking things since forever. AI just needs to be kinda OK at doing HR and accounting and other boring useless company jobs. If something goes wrong, it's just the VC money that's at stake. And the solution is more AI and more VC money.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I know this is just some shitty marketing phrase, but I don't think that would even work, legally. AIUI, to be a company (ie, a limited company) requires being registered with human directors, as they check you're not banned from being one.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Legally in which of the 190+ countries?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    No call to be facetious. It's true for most western countries, and possibly more globally - these things tend to follow certain rules of legal and financial logic.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    What I meant probably didn't carry over through text well. I was being very literal because you were very literal – to show the problem with that.

    Yes, obviously you didn't mean it would actually be illegal in all countries that exist. My point is that the "zero-humans" naming also doesn't actually mean zero humans. There is someone controlling whatever that project is.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I know right? My feed used to be really cool now it's just "Oobinga: Combine Badoinka and Ubunga to supercharge your AI Agent. Generate with Budungo. Compatible with Odoinka Magnum 5 and Hudungu Amaze 3.3"

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    meh, it was cryptocurrency and blockchain snake-oil before it was AI snake-oil

    it might have been good before cryptocurrency, i sadly can't remember

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Not really no. I never looked at that.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    GitHub has indeed become such a slop fest since Microslop bought it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    At this point, only vaguely.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah, those were the good times. I miss the good times.

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