The wildest fucking professional story of 2024 is that this old CTO of mine reached out and asked for a quote for evaluating a project he had been working on.

Turns out the guy had just basically Howard Hughes-ed himself up in his new PNW mansion and had been jam sessioning with ChatGPT for 10 months, inventing some new cryptography-centric product.

All of his notes were basically transcribed conversations with chat GPT. All of his pitch decks were AI slop. When I gave him a quote on how much equity I wanted to evaluate the work, he replied back with a ChatGPT consultation, saying I deserved way less.

I personally think the guy was already a sociopath who didn't truly believe other people actually existed, but went legit peeing-in-jars crazy once he met ChatGPT