Wall Street Journal [no paywall] – Finance Bros to Tech Bros: Don’t Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal. “Traders and investment research teams have a sacred bond with the Bloomberg terminal, which they use to track and analyze real-time and historical pricing for a variety of asset classes, execute and record trades, and chat with customers and peers through one of its most popular features, Instant Bloomberg. Some have met their spouses on its chat feature. Others say they spend more time with it than they do their spouse. At least one commissioned a wedding cake in the shape of it. It is a status symbol, rite of passage and phantom limb wrapped into one. So it was perhaps no surprise that the Bloomberg doomsayers were met with a spirited and decisive backlash from a devoted fan-base who would rather resort to physical violence than let go of their personal and professional security blanket. The finance bros who worship at the altar of Bloomberg have declared war on the tech evangelists who have put all their faith in AI. To suggest that the terminal is replaceable is “laughable,” said Jason Lemire, who jumped into the conversation on LinkedIn. (Ironically or not, his post also included an AI-generated image of churchgoers praying to the Bloomberg terminal).  “It seems quite obvious to me that those propagating that post are either just looking for easy engagement and/or have never worked in a serious financial institution,” he wrote…”