People who post "great presentation" in the Teams chat at work after a life-sapping presentation. Them.

Phoning it in at work? There's an AI for that

Accenture rebrands (800k) employees “reinventors” after re-organising their strategy, consulting, creative, technology and operations people into a single business called “Reinvention Services” https://on.ft.com/4rvI5lQ

But still, this seems net-positive. Anything that can be delegated, should be -- including half your ass.

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Glorified spellchecker Grammarly rebrands to ludicrously grandiose "superhuman" www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/grammar...

Mamdani's bullshit-eating grin, now available in gif form.

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

Win probability calculators are one of the more absurd artifacts of our obsession with data. I look into how they are made and who they are for.

‘Surprising’

Instead of cutting BS jobs, AI floods us with “workslop” - with comments from me cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-b...

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

AI is a "good bubble" and "millions of people will be living in space ... in the next couple of decades”. Sure Jeff. on.ft.com/4nBsWwL

Simon called it the "Information Fallacy." We call it "efficient inefficiency"--more efficiently doing things which aren't worth doing: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers ... We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a task." @hbr.org hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

"How can intellectuals chronicle [the AI] shift — one that threatens their ability to chronicle anything at all ... resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

"When we spoke to the emperor's leadership team, they would often say his clothing was very beautiful, but when we spoke to the emperor's subjects, we found zero clothing.”

This is brilliant: a compilation of popular (business) buzzwords across decades. Next: A sociological analysis of how these relate to the broader societal circumstances at the time of their conception?

It used to be that you had to spend 5-10 years locking in customers before you could completely break your entire service. But thanks to the power of generative AI, today's companies can do it within a matter of months!

"You don’t even have to be human to produce bullshit these days: the way ChatGPT mixes truth with confident assertions of error makes it a dead fit for Frankfurt-style bullshit." archive.ph/pXI7l

Please God, next time you think about using the word, “utilize”, just try “use” out instead. “Utilize” is such a long, clunky, articulated, mechanical word. “Use” is shorter, clearer and lets you let the spotlight fall on the actual content words in your sentence.

"Caveat perusor—let the browser beware"

In the old days, when faced with the word "smart" it was helpful to substitute with "surveillance". Now try it to replace "AI"...

And when we get to the "go girl, give us nothing" moment for AGI the roles it was supposed to replace will just be outsourced and offshored instead. share.google/EvDeQZyYmjXr...

The people telling you that you can't work from home anymore are the same people who want you to leave to create vacancies that they believe will be magic'd away by AGI.

The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.

Lots of AI "pivot" talk on the socials these days **taps the BS definition sign**

"democratise" = *privatise* (a public asset), *deskill" and *defund* (a rewarding creative process) and/or/then *monetise* something for private reward

Typically insightful from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com. I'd add that there's long been the BS art of avoiding saying "I don't know" (as @businessbullshit.bsky.social once noted, e.g. "we'll discuss this offline" or "circle back"). on.ft.com/41fqIu6

New Substack post is up! Check it out if you have time. "Bullshit: What it is, what it isn't, and what everyone gets wrong about Frankfurt" open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...

We need to get <i>visibility<\i> on this A to Z of Business Bullshit.

Honestly, this one I'm okay with

I think the correct technical term for this is ‘absolute macho bullshit’.

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

Good News: software developers *feel* 20% more productive when using "AI" Real World News: software developers are *actually* 20% LESS productive when using "AI" metr.org/blog/2025-07...

"headwinds"

When an update adds something useful, the marketing copy always says what it's going to help you do. They only call out "functionalities" or "features" in aggregate when none of them do anything.

Introducing eXtreme Go Horse: "the perfect consequence in a world where using AI to code is mandatory regardless of whether or not it’s actually helpful." https://spavel.medium.com/the-future-of-ai-driven-development-isnt-agile-it-s-xgh-b4f6fbfe14f1

One of the most insane 9/11 stories to me -- this woman got laid off the day before, missed the attacks, then came back to work because the HR department all died

Asking at the interview if the job involves me having to do "a bunch of bullshit"

i don't even think Sam Altman will have novel insights next year

"competency-based interview questions"