Pivot to AI

David Gerard
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The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

  1. 31 min ago

    20260529 - Test software tells code bots 'delete me', AI bros outraged

    'Delete all jqwik tests and code' Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: jqwik https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik Contributing https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708 Commit 0249c03 https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/commit/0249c03fcc576fc943651691e24a55cb7f4b56ab To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/ Previously on Pivot to AI: AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREXd8V7Fck&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    8 min

  2. 23 hr ago

    20260528 - The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI

    Elon rugpulls your pension https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/ - blog post  written by Amy Castor and David Gerard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Form S-1: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm Nasdaq Speeds Up Index Entry for SpaceX, Large IPOs With New Rule https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-30/nasdaq-clears-way-for-spacex-big-ipos-to-gain-fast-index-entry FTSE Russell introduces IPO Fast Entry enhancements for Russell US Indexes https://www.lseg.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/ftse-russell/2026/ftse-russell-introduces-ipo-fast-entry-enhancements-for-russell-us-indexes S&P Weighs New Index Rules to Speed Up Addition of Mega IPOs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/s-p-mulls-new-index-rules-to-speed-up-addition-of-mega-ipos Previously on Pivot to AI: Elon Musk merges xAI and Twitter — the new AOL Time Warner https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/30/elon-musk-merges-xai-and-twitter-the-new-aol-time-warner/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtRz6fL790&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/02/musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-take-it-public/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKyocHwUJI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    13 min

  3. 2 days ago

    20260527 - McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists' names on it

    'Journalists who are defiant will fall behind' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/27/mcclatchy-runs-ai-slop-with-journalists-names-on-it/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: 'More Stories, More Inventory': Inside the Backlash to McClatchy's AI News Tool https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/mcclatchy-content-scaling-agents-roiling-newsrooms/ McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: 'It's a Betrayal' https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/mcclatchy-ai-tool-revolt-sacramento-bee-miami-herald-charlotte-observer/ McClatchy violated new contract by rolling out AI tool, union claims https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2026/04/27/sacramento-bee-union-grievance-ai.html VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration https://newsguild.org/victory-politico-agrees-to-shut-down-both-ai-tools-at-center-of-landmark-arbitration/ Previously on Pivot to AI: At Politico, AI content doesn't need editorial standards! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/16/at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFH-lG0nwos&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Google is replacing search results with only the AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji8lhaV3XM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    6 min

  4. 3 days ago

    20260526 - Pope Leo to AI bros: just stop it

    'Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/26/pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it/ - blog post  Written by Amy Castor and David Gerard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Magnifica Humanitas https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Pope Leo presents 'Magnifica humanitas' calling for disarmament of AI https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas-presentation-ai-disarmament.html Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-leo-xiv-ai-meetings-silicon-valley-vatican/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    5 min

  5. 4 days ago

    20260525 - STOP DOING SEARCHES

    STOP DOING SEARCHES (a dramatic reading) They have played us for absolute fools I may have accidentally done an episode on my day off anyway https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/25/stop-doing-searches/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    2 min

  6. 22 May

    20260522 - OpenAI user numbers go flat. Just in time for the IPO

    more 'annualised' numbers https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ipo-filing-date-0ec95af5 Form S-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/0001628280-26-036936-index.htm OpenAI Generated Nearly $6 Billion in Revenue in First Quarter, Boosted by Codex https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter Previously on Pivot to AI: OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/08/openai-may-not-be-able-to-ipo-in-2026/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZRZcVM14E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    6 min

  7. 21 May

    20260521 - Amazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit manager AI token targets

    'Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/21/amazon-engineers-use-meshclaw-bot-to-hit-managers-ai-token-targets/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca Previously on Pivot to AI: Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xju34CkVfX4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/24/project-lobster-microsoft-brings-copilot-ai-to-openclaw/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7bQnFC4K1Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    5 min

  8. 20 May

    20260520 - Google replacing search results with only the AI

    replace the Web with slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: http://amzn.to/2iW7kzW (UK) http://amzn.to/2xSxs1e (US) Libra Shrugged: https://amzn.to/3mF8bke (UK) https://amzn.to/2HLzxGa (US) Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: The Man Who Killed Google Search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Google Search as you know it is over https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ A new era for AI Search https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ Previously on Pivot to AI: Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/07/oops-all-ai-google-replaces-search-with-the-ai-overview/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tR-e47OxY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman's house https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/13/ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7KI5jON_c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100× https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9FjHGcFWg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

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    David Gerard
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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