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> driving the value of human labour as close to zero as possible

Tech and automation exists to drive the marginal cost of labor toward zero. It's just happening faster now.

> (your labour included)

Right, it's disrupting you now instead of just dumb people.

> Would this be impressive in terms of convincing you to buy something or teach you something or entertain you?

Obviously yes. I mean have you seen what entertains us? And have you seen what a TV ad looks like? It's not a high bar and this is way above it.

Btw your comment is anti-ai slop. Slinging mud with no real criticism or even a personal observation to be found.

Maybe Oracle is running Genie 10

The context here is the same: using AI to optimize a job or task.

And yes, I read it and I stand by what I said. From TFA:

When I go to a new restaurant and see an AI-generated menu, I’m disappointed. When I see an AI-generated flyer for an event, I’m annoyed and much less likely to go.

To me this is silly. The event is the draw, not the way the flyer was created or the amount of effort that went in to it.

The hypocrisy here is off the charts.

Most people in this thread probably use AI all day to do their job for them. But god forbid a haunted house not hand-craft their flyers.

How about we let this part time business focus on entertaining it's visitors rather than wasting time virtue signaling to hypocrites.

> It would basically be writing down the same - easy to understand logic

Perhaps this is a sign that this function isn't necessary.

> Most of the time clients don't know what they really want

I know this happens but it shouldn't. If the client doesn't know what they want then they shouldn't be wasting money on developers.

> outside of our bubble the quality of software is pretty bad

It's pretty bad inside the bubble too.

You may have lost track of the context of this thread. Anyway have a good one.

> make this thingy run on our test thingy

You're still thinking like a dev following traditional dev processes.

More like: "Claude do X".

> deploy to dev

You're thinking like a developer that needs to build and deploy software for other people to use, rather than as a user that wants to do something.

> the fact that everything else is automated is irrelevant

It is relevant because you're the one that wrote the script to automate it.

Sure, it works for you. But it doesn't work for everyone else, which I think was the other person's ideal when they said:

Imagine just dropping .md files to your server and having a working website

They didn't literally mean your server.

> cron that runs the shell script

So then you don't just drop a .md file.

> If you don't understand grief

This is not what I said and you're being rude. I'm saying that I don't understand the grief being expressed for the loss of a hobby. Because as I explained, computers can't invalidate hobbies.

> Sounds like I got suckered into arguing with an AI yet again.

Nope. I'm a human and didn't use AI for anything I wrote. But thanks?