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If AI was so good, you would think we could give people a choice whether or not to use it. And you would think it would make such an obvious difference, that everyone would choose to use it and keep using it. Instead, I can't open any app or website without multiple pop-ups begging me to use AI features. Can't send an email, or do a Google search. Can't post to social media, can't take a picture on my phone without it begging me to use an AI filter. Can't go to the gallery app without it begging me to let it use AI to group the photos into useless albums that I don't want.

It all stinks of resume-driven development

So there's no point in pushing for pasture raised, and it's either all or nothing ?

I think incremental progress is possible. I think rolling back and gag laws would make a positive difference in animal welfare because people would be able to film and show how bad conditions are inside.

I think that's worth pushing for. And it's more realistic than everyone stopping eating meat all at once.

I would much rather lobby for ending ad gag laws, and fighting for better treatment of animals.

I think its more realistic than getting people to give up meat entirely

I've tried many times here to voice my reservations against AI. I've been accused of being on the "anti AI hype train" multiple times today.

As if there isn't a massive pro AI hype train. I watched an nfl game for the first time in 5 years, and saw no less than 8 AI commercials. AI Is being forced on people.

In commercials people were using it to generate holiday cards for God sake. I can't imagine something more cold and impersonal. I don't want that garbage. Our time on earth is to short to wade through LLM slop text

So far the 2 answers you've received are killing people and sending emails.

I don't think either of those are particularly valuable to the society I'd like to see us build.

We're already incredibly dialed in and efficient at killing people. I don't think society at large reaps the benefits if we get even better at it.

I can't imagine the community here changing how they feel.

I think one of the biggest divides between pro/anti AI is the type of ideal society that we wish to see built.

His rant reads as deeply human. I don't think that's something to apologize for.

Is the "Great wealth for everyone in America" in the room with us now?

There's certainly great wealth for ~1000 billionaires, but where I am nobody I know has healthcare, or owns a house for example.

If your argument is that we could be poorer, that's not really productive or useful for people that are struggling now.

The only way to phase out meat is to make a replacement that actually tastes good.

Come to the american south and ask them to try tempeh. They'll look at you like you asked them to eat roaches.

It's a cultural thing.

Finally someone echoes my sentiments. It's my sincere belief that many in the software community are glazing AI for the purposes of career advancement. Not because they actually like it.

One person I know is developing an AI tool with 1000+ stars on github where in private they absolutely hate AI and feel the same way as rob.

Maybe it's because I just saw Avatar 3, but I honestly couldn't be more disgusted by the direction we're going with AI.

I would love to be able to say how I really feel at work, but disliking AI right now is the short path to the unemployment line.

If AI was so good, you would think we could give people a choice whether or not to use it. And you would think it would make such an obvious difference, that everyone would choose to use it and keep using it. Instead, I can't open any app or website without multiple pop-ups begging me to use AI features. Can't send an email, or do a Google search. Can't post to social media, can't take a picture on my phone without it begging me to use an AI filter. Can't go to the gallery app without it begging me to let it use AI to group the photos into useless albums that I don't want.

The more you see under the hood, the more disgusting it is. I yearn for the old days when developers did tight, efficient work, creating bespoke, artistic software in spite of hardware limitations.

Not only is all of that gone, nothing of value has replaced it. My DOS computer was snappier than my garbage Win11 machine that's stuffed to the gills with AI telemetry.

In 2025, the most profitable companies are ones where nobody knows what they do. Salesforce, Palantir, Oracle, ect.

15 years ago I tried it and got that path error. 1 year ago I tried again and still got the same error. I'm well aware that it's simple enough to fix. But I was baffled that the same error was still there.

I wanted to express similar sentiment, but I didn't understand how I would without leaving a rule breaking comment.

It's my sincerely held opinion that we're fostering a culture here that ignores the "human impact" of the technology that we're rushing to adopt.

I'm well aware that many members of this community have achieved "success" through software. This includes the rapid adoption of new computing paradigms, new technology stacks, new frameworks, etc.

I am fortunate to be employed. But around me, when I step out of my house, it's painful. People are hurting. They're unemployed. They're depressed. And the younger generation is even worse. They can't even afford to dream.

I live in a corporate world of forced smiles and fake enthusiasm. I would hate for that same culture to take root here. We need to be able to express significant doubt, or even cynicism against AI, without fear of backlash.

Set up jellyfin and tube archivist - I can't stand buffering

Thanks for this. Now I can send the pic to my local PEV group

The food was probably healthier too

This seems like a pretty loosey goosey study. How do you realistically quantify someone's "overall happiness in life" and "burnout risk" into 1 number ?

I'm not sure how they did the control group, but I would be curious about the difference between 15 minutes playing Mario, and just getting a 15 minute break.

I think any significant time away from work/studying could reduce burnout risk

God every website is such garbage these days. 1 second timer, full page pop up. Geolocation logging to sell to advertisers... I'm just not gonna read the article. It's a shame cause it looks interesting

Probably flagging vapes and recorders as guns . . .

In your dreams maybe

bruh, we're never making it to space as a society if you can't stop getting hung up on pointless shit like this

who friggen cares? why can the president diddle kids, but a random internet user has to have perfect grammar to be taken seriously?

the poster of this article could probably not care less if you "take them seriously"

i actually interact with ideas, not grammar. Especially in a fun personal blog post like this

I notice that when anyone says anything negative about the rich on the internet, people show up at lightspeed like you insulted their mom to defend them

Isn't AI too new to study it's effects on the kids?

They can do whatever they want with it with the sure knowledge that the users will never leave it. Tiktok is the digital equivalent of "getting kids addicted to heroin"

"See but what if instead of ctrl+F, we fired up a nvdia gpu in a data center instead .... "

I'll pass. Also for people that already know another language, the auto translate is annoying, inaccurate, and strips all of the humanity out of the writing.

All for searching something trivial, where for 99% of cases the already indexed wikipedia summary is good enough and way faster

Just saving this comment here for the future, so when he does it in 2 years I can come back and rub it in

I think we should label devs overreliant on AI as "Engineers who dismiss themselves"

The EV one won't happen because people here are fundamentally culturally opposed to EVs

We can't even make a robot that folds clothes yet ..

It's not for a bet. The presents are just for celebration. You could call it an expression of joy