brandonmenc

Because I’ll know how much I can slack off.

> I would still resist because an increase in my output would not correlate to an increase in my salary

It will correlate to you still having a job.

"Resisting" is like refusing to use a shovel at your ditch-digging job.

You can still write a program even though AI can do it.

You can still build a table from scratch even though you can buy one from Ikea.

etc etc

> At every turn it seems like a lot of intellectual pursuits are just being voided by this technology.

If the goal was to show off your accomplishments on social media, sure.

Sorry, but you’re crazy.

There is absolutely no way I can ever go back to vanilla web search vs Gemini.

The XT was significantly more powerful than the Apple II in every way except color depth.

Just about every PC game in 1989 ran on an XT with CGA.

And yet, tons of comments on Threads from women saying she's been gaslit or even that the husband must have threatened her with violence and forced her to write this.

You can't win with these people.

I recently tried to encourage my smart, technical, but not-programmer friend to build an app using LLMs and he was just like, "I still have no idea where to even start."

People talk a lot about how "real programmers" used to have to clean up or actually deploy everyone's half-baked MS Access app, and that sort of thing will probably still be the case for a while.

Hilarious, because accounting for this stuff is drilled into your head when you study the softer sciences (like psychology) even as an undergrad.

Science fiction is entertainment.

There's no way to like, "misread" it.

Sorry, but you need to have at least some info about the humans involved before I would even consider using this.

The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare minimum of hyperlinking.

Like, yeah, no duh - I can use Google.

Not a single hyperlink in that article. Infuriating.