Oh nice. An even worse Torment Nexus
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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Please, Don't Create the Torment Nexus was written in the 70's. The author only had a vague idea of the concept. We can make it better. Tormentier.
Also, the author was clearly biased against any kind of torment nexus, completely disreguarding our well studied benefits of using our Torment Nexus™
What does AI upskilling even mean? Isnt the premise of AI that you can do everything just with natural language, everybody already knows how to talk/write about what they want. And if they mean AI adjacent things like RAG, then thats just software engineering with API calls wrapped with english prompts, and upskilling software engineering with AI kinda works but we've already seen a lot of vibe coded disasters.
What does AI upskilling even mean?
It means Altman gets richer. That's all.
I quit a job last year where they announced they were adding AI use to our performance reviews.
This AI up skill shit is BS. I don’t need a nanny telling me to use tools that I as the expert should determine the usefulness of.
At my new job I use AI probably the most in the company. I build MCP tools, I use it to automate things, I’ve deployed it for data cleaning tasks. I just took a 2 week manual review process and built a RAG search engine that reduces that work to an hour of effort.
I don’t need some C suite jackass pretending they know my job better than me.
Isnt the premise of AI that you can do everything just with natural language, everybody already knows how to talk/write about what they want.
Yes but also "you have to start using AI now or you'll get left behind". You expect grifters to be consistent?
Wait, isn't openai basically reliant in Microsoft for hosting as well as most of their product offerings? And doesn't Microsoft own LinkedIn? Or am I out of the loop.
i doubt microsoft cares. they’re going to be competing in the space wherever openAI is hosted, might as well be making money from azure while doing it. Azure probably hosts many companies that compete with microsoft in some way.
Openai has an "at cost" azure deal with Microsoft. They don't make any azure money from them.
This feels like a mix of "keep the bubble moving somehow" hype and a shot across the bow at Microsoft, who are in a nasty back and forth with Openai right now because openai wants to break its early deals with Microsoft to go fully for profit to get a large amount of funds from Softbank. Microsoft isn't okay with that, as it would cost them exclusivity to Openais tech and various other things.
Yeah you're right about both things, but OpenAI has been looking to decrease its dependence on Microsoft.
Still, isn't this just biting the hand that feeds you? Whatever...
Yeah they have rights to their IP, a share of the first 100 billion in profit they might hypothetically make one day, and provide most (all, up until jan of this year) of their cloud service. They also oppose OpenAI's bid to convert to a non-profit by year end, which a huge chunk of their funding is dependent upon. It really a strange play tbh.
They have a huge contract with CoreWeave.
Making arbitrary decisions more opaque. How useful.
Incoming lawsuit: prove your AI didn't say no because I'm in a protected category.
sooooo a site that says it'll do something but in turn won't actually do it.
companies already post ghost jobs via AI on linkedin/indeed/etc so there's no need for this. No one, other than the Linkedin Tech Bros/Wannabe middle managers, is going to use this.
Feels like Sam is grasping at straws right now to keep his shit afloat.
This is the only line you really need from the entire atricle:
That’s the idea behind our new OpenAI Certifications.
It is an age-old idea. People were getting Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, AWS certificates to pad their CVs for ages. This is a legitimate way for a person to put a well known logo on their page and an easy way for companies to make a few bucks. OpenAI wants that as well.
The certificate means nothing. The course for it teaches nothing. But a CV with an OpenAI logo on it looks better than without and OpenAI wants people to pay for the privilege.
Is it just me or is this shithead in full "throw spaghetti at the wall mode". This is, like, the third dumbass announcement he's made this week, which seems high, even for him.
I think Sam work-shopped this with Chat GPT.
Great, this is all the infinite information sucking machine was missing: MY information. Can’t wait for hiring companies to try to force me to use this /s
I don’t have the traditional background for my job but I’m very good at it.
These systems will never prioritize people like me despite years of real world results.
I mean if it saves effort on job hunting it can’t be worse (linkedin is AWFUL)
If you think it cannot be worse prepare yourself for a wild ride.
It's fing awful when you are hiring too, it makes me nauseous
I bet it will be Amazon Mechanical Turk alternative, they will introduce tokens you can earn from job that you can pay out or use for chatting with your beloved model. People will be working for free just to be able to chat with their lover AI. Let's go and fuck those junkies.
I wonder where Altman gets his drugs. Can someone hook me up?
At OpenAI, we can’t eliminate that disruption.
.......................................................... oh yes you can .....................
Nope!