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More self betterment less work

Actually they just expect people with over a billion dollars to pay a lot more tax. And seeing as those people built so much wealth by raping society and exploiting people and through corruption I'd say it's the least that should happen to them.

They don't care about water moron, they just hate Musk and his kind and they hate AI. Rightly so. People are taking back the power. Fuck you and fuck your stock price

America desperately needs January to come around fast. We need some level headed sensible people running the country. We need to elect more socialists to knock these tech companies down hard. Power to the people and fuck all this AI shit.

So much money lost by Musk and co! Love it! The people always have more power than a few rich people.

A farm produces food that people can eat. A data center runs AI that takes people's jobs and produces... vibe coded websites that look like trash.

You gotta sell it to the voters and so far no one can because it's garbage they didn't ask for

I guarantee all these vibe coded hacker* sites will be abandoned in a few months. Easy to make, easy to get bored of maintaining and paying for.

Gonna be a wasteland of vibe coded shit that meant nothing.

$10k a month! Are you mental?

What return have you got from that?

Also it's breathe not breath.

Because it's tacky. That's partly why people are upset. AI features and generated output is tacky.

Can't you create recipes with your own brain? It's called being creative.

Email stopped me having to walk to the post box or spend a lunch hour in the post office. Before WhatsApp etc it let me communicate instantly with relatives in other countries for free. Email made my website accounts harder to crack. So many things.

What the fuck have LLMs done yet? Nothing! We would be no worse off without them so far and no one has anything to show to prove otherwise, except some vibe coded websites that all look the same (edgy dark theme and hacker vibes)

Why?

I don't like that comparison. Email was an improvement to snail mail, and the people who you claim refused to use it just didn't understand it and didn't want to understand it.

Lots of people, myself included, understand llms and can and do use them at work because we have to, but we might choose to not use them outside of work because they rot our brains, are unethical, funnel even more money into the hands of a few billionaires (selling a service trained on stolen property) and haven't actually been proven to make the world better. Unlike email!

In current times only cowards and deadbeats are non partisan.

So you're not against fascism?

I've stopped using AI outside of work and its so refreshing. I actually use a search engine again and read web pages written by humans 10 years ago to find information on things. I don't have to read that awful fucking prose that LLMs vomit up or put up with their pathetic sycophancy.

>Like how on the whole China/Asia poll more favourably in public perception and adoption of AI.

If I was Chinese I'd probably have more faith that AI advances are going to benefit society as a whole than just a few tech billionaires.

As an American, not so much.

What nonsense! If a product manager ships something that breaks then the software engineer who submitted the code gets the blame!

Software engineers are always responsible for their code except now they have to be responsible for Claude's code

This current moment we are in feels like something out of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, bit instead of humanity becoming super depressed and hopeless about a future alien invasion we are super depressed and hopeless about LLMs destroying all our hopes and dreams.

How can you group Ukraine and Palestine in with Russia and Israel?

Russia and Israel are the countries causing the regions to be war torn. They are mass murdering invaders, no better than Nazi Germany.

The countries with healthy democracies and who value science and the rule of law support the ICC. It's the better 3rd to be in.

All of that stuff meant something to someone though. They put real time and effort into those creations.

>I want my products and projects to be judged by what they do and how well they work

Hence the question "what's the most impressive and useful thing you have made"

But no one really has any examples. Just half baked slop they never got over the finish line.

So software that already solves those problems isn't good enough and your vibe coded versions will be better? And totally worth the negative cost of AI to society and the environment? You just gotta have your own versions right?

>you can't think of anything to unleash some agents on within the entire digital world at any given time?

It has to be worth it though right? Like I could spend some money and have agents build me my own Photoshop maybe (maybe?) But it would definitely be much worse to use than actual Photoshop. Then I have to have the continued interest to keep improving it which probably won't happen because the next shiny thing will grab my attention. So it all just seems like a bunch of kids that have been given a seemingly endless supply of free candy and they are going fucking nuts like chipmunks with ADHD on crack. Building all this shit that is absolutely meaningless. I realize I've gone on a rant but I'll keep going. I strongly suspect (with no evidence whatsoever) that the people who are churning slop apps out at breakneck speed have never been to an art museum. There. I said it. You've all got no taste. You wouldn't know a quality product if it hit you in the face. I'll leave with this thought- if apple didn't exist, would they ever exist now we have LLMs? I say no, because the age of good taste and refined design and original thoughts is gone forever now that we have Claude and chatgpt and agents.

What's the most impressive and useful thing you have built then?

Clickbait much?

It was released like a day ago wasn't it? Can you really draw such a strong conclusion already?

You guys work for Hermes right?

Actually I'm pretty good advocate for an accessible web. I think speech to text must be an awesome quality of life improvement for some people.

But I don't see why anyone would need an autonomous agent let loose on their device, u less they are actually braindead in which case its not going to help anyway.

People saying it helps with ADHD, but if you suffer from things related to over stimulation from your environment an autonomous agent is going to potentially make things much much worse when it fucks up your life by send a bad email or instant message

Wait until you start getting even more emails and phone calls about suspicious activity on your accounts, or weird emails "you" have sent, or from friends asking why you didn't turn up, or that your flight was successfully rescheduled. Then your ADHD is really going to flare up!