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Everyone called it last year and the year before.

The conversation around AI being cheap now started when ChatGPT launched in 2023

Heh this post right now is HN 103 for me while this[1] is 102

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939160

Ah that explains handing models over to AWS to run in their data centers

This is what I use now after testing others through 2025

It has the most "UNIX" feel of a simple app that you compose the just right flow from and nothing more

It's an example of constraints that still apply.

Don't pay taxes. Steal cars, punch Trump, call a black person the N-word ... see how it goes

Paper and pencil offer a far more blank canvas compared to the very specific hardware constraints of a phone, and ecosystem of software limited to the common languages

Software dev and use is, comparatively, heavily constrained and on rails compared to sitting by a tree and imagining

To buy the phone ones agency is coupled to the subset of legitimate options to make money

Same for electricity to charge it, battery replacement, screen repair if it breaks.

Really just quickly becomes a ball and chain

So free!

Uh huh. Freedom. In some empty rhetorical sense. Meanwhile you still have 99.999% of the usual obligations.

Go freely walk out your local supermarket without paying.

But your Android phone is unlocked #winning

I don't understand how, given bullshitting the public about Making America Great Again has been the norm since Reagan, Americans are still so surprised to find ...oops it was all lies for votes!

Academics like Zinn and Chomsky, popular music, movies, TV have been calling out the lies for decades.

Americans are that fucking dumb, I guess.

Unrelated but what do you all get from this endless speculation about others motives?

To me it just comes across like the stereotype of a lonely house wife peaking through the blinds judging the neighbors.

This forum is just as absurd as Reddit but in a subtle way; politically correct language without the zany memes but nonetheless absurd sense of self righteousness and importance and the validity of endless unsubstantiated assertions and qualifications.

As if not posting about Harambe affords legitimacy while posting what boils down to intrusive thoughts about people and motives y'all are removed from.

The nostalgia fueled appeals to preserve your grasp of reality specifically are just a modern conservatism. Time moves on and has as little obligation to stand still for HN doomers as it does adherents of traditional religions, contemporary American capitalism .

The horse and buggy and rotary phone and other engineers screwed out of careers by off shoring playing a tiny violin for script kiddies who grew up to become expert Python and DevOps engineers.

Get over yourself. Your efforts are a drop in the ocean of human effort. Ffs this comes off as some fine whine.