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There must be a misunderstanding.

I'm saying I dislike the constant "this is AI slop" and "this is vibecoded" complaints on posts. I see no value in them and I wish they'd stop.

I'm saying nothing about the use of AI in generating content.

Had us in the first half. And the second half too.

> the content creator economy

This is exactly one of the things I find maddening at the moment. "Everyone" (except my actual friends) on social media is trying to sell me something.

Eg: I like dogs. It's becoming increasingly hard to follow dog accounts without someone trying to sell me their sponsor's stuff.

> Once person companies will not have a 100 person marketing team trying to inject ads into ever corner of your life.

Because these one person companies will scale up everything with AI except marketing/advertising? Consider me skeptical.

I'm definitely not a Star Trek connoisseur but I thought a big part of the lore is the "never again"-ish response to the wars through WW3?

But anyway, I share your lack of optimism.

I don't understand the people who think more companies with fewer employees is a good thing.

I already feel spammed to death by desperate requests for my consumption as is.

> We're going to have Skynet or Star Trek

Star Trek only got a good society after an awful war, so neither of these options are good.

Super Bowl ads, in particular, really are their own thing. People will even watch them later, discuss, share, etc.

There are some people who have more interest in the Super Bowl for the ads than the sport.

So I'd say it's not money flushed down the bowl.

Random fun fact: 20ish years ago, I used to work at a web hosting company that had superbowlads.com (iirc) as a customer. I'm not surprised it's no longer an actual site, though: I speculatively doubt NFL lawyers would've left it alone.

I didn't like SV (the show) because it made me feel like I was going to work on Sunday night.

I guess that's to its credit: it nailed the culture.

I'm all for it if it'll stop people from commenting about things being AI slop or vibecoded and comes with a new guideline discouraging said comments.

I'm gonna be guilty of whataboutism but is there any remotely large company out there that isn't a black hole of despair when it comes to feedback?

Not sure how seriously I should take diet info from someone named Kirby...

Okay, but when you're asking a model to do things like summarizing documents, analyzing data, or reading docs and producing code, etc, you don't necessarily have a lot of control over the quality of the input.

I don't know if it demonstrates anything, but I do think it's somewhat natural for people to want to interact with tools that feel like they make sense.

If I'm going to trust a model to summarize things, go out and do research for me, etc, I'd be worried if it made what looks like comprehension or math mistakes.

I get that it feels like a big deal to some people if some models give wrong answers to questions like this one, "how many rs are in strawberry" (yes: I know models get this right, now, but it was a good example at the time), or "are we in the year 2026?"

Or it's curiosity (genuine or polite). Maybe, for some people it tips the scale into trying the app either because they were already thinking about trying some/any app, or switching away from their current one.

I don't know if anyone who's asked me has started using the app as a result, but I think it (anecdotally, again) supports an idea that a successful results for one app organically helps its name recognition.

Edit: unless you meant the difference was between people asking which app vs which spouse.

Why have arranged marriages when you can have deranged marriages?

I don't know if I look forward to it, myself, but yeah: I can imagine a future where in person interactions become preferred again because at least you trust the other person is human. Until that also stops being true, I guess.

Didn't know those had a name but that only applies to half the wood frame buildings I lived in. The other ones had no "1" (I assume the foundation/slab was concrete though).

My counter anecdote would be that almost every time I mention my spouse and I met on a dating app, people ask me which one.

Edit: people ask me which app, not which spouse.

I don't get how this disagrees with what GGP wrote.

I think you and OP just have different definitions for "apartment building".

I've lived in pretty large buildings (eg dozens of units and four floors high) that were largely made of wood in both the northeast of the US and California.

They aren't high-rise buildings but I wouldn't argue they aren't apartment buildings, and they're far from uncommon.

> I had to stop my Seinfeld rewatch

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't buy the "separate the artist from the artwork" line.

I can't say I've ever watched Seinfeld, but there are plenty of other artists whose work I just won't consume anymore because they've done things I find despicable (and that I know of).

Why would I want to see or hear them or even think about them while trying to enjoy something?

Intentionally and knowingly tipping is winning, no?

Unless we start arguing that gratitude is a dark pattern.

As someone who's worked in restaurant kitchens but did one single day as a waiter for training, I'd basically never work as a server, even for tips and the extra money.

Cooking was way easier.

I agree the whole tipping system in the US is a mess, though.

Could you search for tickets and such on MB?

All the stuff I'm familiar with is only payments (with entity and reference).

Now that I think about it, you could search for things on Minitel but I don't remember if payments were made as phone charges or if they could also be done with transfers.

Minitel was so prohibitively expensive to use (just about every service cost multiple francs per minute), I didn't do much with it.

I'm French and living in Portugal and I do not get the Minitel comparison. Minitel was basically a Telnet device to various services' servers.

That said, I love MB and MB Way. What an upgrade it's been over paying for stuff in the US (where I lived before moving to Portugal).

Well that's sad to hear. Also kinda makes me glad I didn't wander down the path of learning Solidworks during the pandemic.

I find it hard to disagree with this (sadly).

I do feels things in general are more "snappy" at the OS level, but once you get into apps (local or web), things don't feel much better than 30 years ago.

The two big exceptions for me are video and gaming.

I wonder how people who work in CAD, media editing, or other "heavy" workloads etc, feel.

I don't think they're implying it's likely. Just that it's more likely than the other scenario.

Anecdata, but I don't remember my high school friends in Europe being much more (if at all) responsible with alcohol than my US friends were when I went to college there.

They just started getting blackout drunk 3 years earlier.