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'Bromium' coined to mock tech bros' AI pivot

Original: Freemium is dead, bromium is coming. Bromium is the "good" tech bro explaining to everyone that they are fighting LLMs (

A new piece of internet slang, 'bromium', is being used to describe the self-styled 'good' tech entrepreneur who claims to be fighting the spread of large language models while building products with those same models. The jab frames this contradiction as a driver of broader costs: freemium services dying off, market inflation and rising university fees, with users footing the bill.

Why now: Frustration is mounting over tech companies charging more for AI features that many users did not ask for and blame for rising costs.

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• Freemium is dead, bromium is coming. Bromium is the "good" tech bro explaining to everyone that they are fighting LLMs (the enemy of the good tech bro) with LLMs (they have no choice ye know) and it costs them, so we pay for it in giant market inflation, impossible uni fees,… · silentexception · 1

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