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It sounds like a modern Twilight Zone premise. There's one social network left where any engagement is possible, but it's the one where nothing worthwhile is being said.

It's a strange choice of something to take personally. It doesn't mean code is supposed to be easy for everyone at all times, just that past a certain point of your own personal pa…

People who believe AI will remain user friendly and affordable forever are like people who believed streaming would remain cheap and friendly to password sharing forever.

The useful idiots will just step in and say there's a better model, or will be soon, or this will all be dramatically cheaper in 12 months.

I'm glad the article calls out early on that the data center issue is largely a proxy for the general hatred of AI. Data centers were generally tolerated until recently. You could …

There should be a name for the phenomenon in which the discerning minority of an online population flees a rapidly worsening service for newer, better options while the passive sta…

If these products are the place that talent has brought us, of what use was the talent?

The economics of AI investment don't make sense without the promise of vast displacement of labor. There's a ceiling on how much value can be created for a company simply by them u…

AI in general is that same promise, writ large. The script kiddie version of any knowledge labor suddenly achievable by anyone. A great equalizer but one that drags down the averag…

I don't know how many layers of irony I should be interpreting this through. But I wonder if there really will be people who start seeing AI as sentient because they only ever saw …

That surely applies to some people. Also there are subscriptions I can easily afford, but the proliferation of the model has turned me against it in principle.

Judging from the pictures shown in the article, the uncanny valley remains undefeated. But there's people out there who are easily fooled, so I'm not surprised the fakes are effect…

Railroads were meaningful to the development of the country. Replacing labor with cheap slop and pocketing the savings isn't.

My most important development came from thousands of hours of doing work directly, myself, getting things wrong, or not quite right, and iterating on my own labor.

Everything that can be done is being done to ensure that white-collar labor transitions from skilled workers to low-cost fungible operators of AI. Even if no further jobs are lost …

These comments are filled with people who believe that everyone else here is dumber than they are. Leaving shallow dismissive comments explaining something that doesn't need to be …

Without these companies we'd have a large workforce freed up to do something worthwhile. It's not like the people would disappear.

All you need to do is avoid the sites that have captured the world-scale Eternal September. Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc.

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We pay too much attention to the idea of AI becoming Skynet and not enough attention to the more mundane reality that AI is simply a force multiplier for all manner of fraud and pr…

You also likely grew up with less fear of things like subways and people who look different than you.

The site may be slop and poorly made, but that doesn't invalidate that consumer products of a given quality tier are lower quality than they used to be. People like to see it confi…

It is actually darkly fascinating how eager so many people are about racing towards NPCdom.

You don't build credibility by putting out slop and correcting it every time someone points out that it's wrong. You think it's our job to proofread and fact-check?

I forget where I read this but someone pointed out that's probably the reason why vacant CEOs/execs and their wannabes love it so much.