Or, since LLMs seem to be addictive, it's like getting rid of the spinach farms and replacing them with opium poppies. (I really hate this tech.)
Let's... not do that for brainrot.
Yes, far different, because we can still go to the gym and throw medicine balls around or swing kettle bells and do dead lifts and squats if we want to stay fit.
There is no substitute for exercising our ability to logically construct deterministic, hardened, efficient data flow networks that process specific inputs in specific environments to produce specific changes and outputs.
Maybe I'm the only one who understood the most important factor the eminent Leslie Lamport explained in grisly detail the other day, that, namely, logical thinking is both irreplaceable and essential. I'll add that that nerdiest of skillsets is also withering on the vine.
"Enjoy." --Daniel Tosh
Factorio?
And every single microprocessor and their encompassing support systems and the systems they host and execute.
Every single system, even analog ones, because it's all just information flowing through switched systems, even if it's solely measured in something involving coulombs.
Also, fundamentally, living cells and the organisms that encompass them, because they all have a logically variable information flow both within them and between them, measured in molecules and energy.
They're extraordinary and beautiful.