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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

2/17/2026, 7:32:05 PM

Public

Lmao.

A screenshot of Reddit post from /r/ExperiencedDevs by /u/Tech-Cowboy

Title: An AI CEO finally said something honest

Post description that reads:

{Meta}
Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take:

“everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code

here's what things actually look like

- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping

- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life

- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend

- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon

- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real

- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills”

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obrhoff @obrhoff@mastodon.social

2/17/2026, 8:27:45 PM

Public

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116087634363842093

Actually, a good point that the price of implementing an idea is important to be focused and creative.

Kinda reminds me of movies, where creativity dropped when everything could be made with CGI and there were no limits anymore.