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The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

In the rosiest of scenarios, everyone who is getting onboard with this stuff is just lining up to be brutally and aggressively milked for all they are worth

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Like great, it's neat you've made agents that do actual work for you. Is that agentic work going to increase your income or are whatever gains you see from that going to be eaten up and more when they jack your subscription fees, which they are 1000% going to do

Also if they were actually right and it will magically stay cheap and can magically do all their work for them, doesn't that mean they're just training their own replacements? Oh wait, these are probably professional meeting-attenders rather than people who do things. That makes a little more sense

My other thing is, they've had a few years to refine this stuff now, and they keep talking about all the amazing productivity gains they're making with it and blah blah blah, and all of that has led to... what, exactly? A Coca-Cola commercial? Where the fuck are the emperor's pants

The irony of coca-cola selling bottled water in recycled plastic bottle while simultaneously supporting an unsustainable technology that wastes water cooling their data centers…. Think I’ll go walk into the ocean while it still exists…

Every so often in the middle of one of the hype threads you'll get a throwaway line like "of course you shouldn't use it anywhere where errors matter". Ok fine.

Interesting to contrast corporate resistance to unionisation and collective bargaining on wages terms and conditions that might push up labour costs with willingness to become dependent on monopoly AI labour supplier.

Exactly, they HAVE to. When I was responsible for selling LLM solutions nothing I did could show us coming close to covering even half our costs. Given that it’s a scam every megacorp is now dumping its entire future into, it’s one million percent going to be the public socializing this loss too.