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Started watching Silo season 3. My god we are gonna spend the entire season around Juliette trying to get her memory back aren’t we? It’s insane how bad this show got after the insanely awesome first season. And apparently the books got better, but the TV adaptation went to the dumps. Hopefully it picks up.

In other exciting news we got our Dreame last night. So it was delivered to a neighbor of ours who used Amazon key. But these guys were out for while two weeks and came few days ago I guess. They dropped it off last night. Unfortunately I had already complained to Amazon about this and with lack of responses to my hoa post I assumed it was gone. So Amazon refunded me the money. Oh well, I guess I will keep it?

What an insane morning. I started getting pinged by Engineering leaders on whether the product I am leading has been deprioritized. I was like, huh, no it’s infact one of top priorities this year for company. Soon I started getting more pings from other cross functional leaders asking me the same qn – everyone’s like ok your product is done. I pinged my VP who was as clueless as I was. Turns out someone in another org used Claude to summarize cross functional efforts going on, it hallucinated that one of the top priority product has been deprioritized. This engineer did not choose to confirm this info but just cut copy pasted it into their slide deck that was then presented to their leadership and few common cross functional leaders. I spent hours trying to nail this down and turns out it was fucking AI hallucinating that the top priority was not in fact one, and humans just assumed it’s true. FML.

After six months in the digits ads industry I have come to a sad conclusion that there is no way, and I mean no way anyone can prevent Googles and Facebooks of the world from knowing every fucking thing about you, even if you don’t have a Google or Facebook account. Even if you use the most privacy centric browser, the most rigid privacy settings on browser etc. Nope. Nada. It’s truly been an eye opener of sorts.

Nearly 6 months since I joined the new company and after the initial chaos it has settled down, but I continue to be extremely disappointed with overall culture and ethic of this company. The amount of bad faith actors and bad faith tactics used by almost every team out here is just upsetting at a fundamental level. You are just one conversation away being hoodwinked by any team. Such a disappointing place that I came having very high hopes. I truly miss working at AWS/Amazon. Even at their crappiest they are miles ahead of others in the industry.

I don’t know why we have a senate or house anymore in this country when every single law or decision is being challenged and decided by Supreme Court. Why waste all the money on electing congressmen/women and senators. Just ask Supreme Court to govern no? I am sure the 6 stooges would love it.