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Comment · 8 months ago
Because we've passed the point of no return. There's no need for empty mission statements, or even a mission at all. AI is here to stay and nobody is gonna change that no matter what happens next.
Comment · 8 months ago
Love the domain name. How did you manage to snag it?
Comment · 9 months ago
> Honest question, if large portions of labor are automated or marginalized who ultimately buys the goods and services that companies produce?

Once the robots, energy, and weapons all belong to the same small group, that group no longer needs to sell anything to anyone. Production continues, but only for themselves and their enclosed system. The rest of humanity becomes a surplus population that can simply be allowed to die off.

In other words: the economy you’re worried about preserving is already obsolete the moment the owners of the machines no longer require wage slaves or consumers to keep the system running. At that point, mass demand is no longer a feature, it’s a bug that gets patched out.

Comment · 9 months ago
I always read and review the code and it's true that the old models from 2023/2024 were using a lot of emojis. But that code was garbage. Since LLMs have started to write decent code, I haven't seen one emoji.
Comment · 9 months ago
Well, it is. Let's say that AI adds emojis to my code/text. Me, a millennial who hates emojis, will tell the AI to delete those emojis and never use them again in my code or my official documents. The gen Z guy who got his first job last week will love to keep them.
Comment · 9 months ago
> Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

As for emojis appearing in EHRs, a more likely explanation is the growing presence of Gen Z professionals in healthcare, who are known for integrating emojis into their communication. This trend probably has little to do with AI and more to do with generational habits.

Comment · 10 months ago
Does it really matter? Even if a billionaire’s kid gets hooked on Coca-Cola or social media, they still have vastly more resources (therapy, education, support) to overcome it. Meanwhile, kids in underprivileged communities don’t get that safety net. For CEOs like Zuckerberg or Coca-Cola’s leadership, that disparity is just a small price to pay for the profits their products generate.
Comment · 11 months ago
I'm with you. The industry has pivoted from building tools that help you code to selling the fantasy that you won't have to. They don't care about the reality of the review bottleneck; they care about shipping features that look like 'the future' to sell more seats.
Comment · 11 months ago
No it doesn't, because social media already did that. There's nothing left to be broken.

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