AI critics get the hedge-fund treatment: “Then why are you wasting my time?”

fkasummer · x · 2026-07-27

A tech worker riffs on an old hedge-fund joke: if you’re not building the next paradigm, why are you spending time criticizing language models?

The original quote compares AI criticism to a junior analyst pitching a short to a legendary hedge-fund manager, only to be asked: “Are you short the stock?” When the answer is no, the manager says: “Then why are you wasting my time?”

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