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And if googling went away I’d just go back to those giant books with the animals on them.

I'm required to use it for generating code. But that's a small part of my job. Occasionally I'll use it to research niche topics because it's faster than a search but I'd be just fine without it.

I spent 10+ years coding without AI. It's just a tool, and one that's easily misused by people with low aptitude. I see it all the time and have to leave comments and block PRs until people fix the slop it outputs.

sames. That said, if AI went away, we have a few already-deployed systems that would go poof too. They increase throughput of the humans doing real work (we're not building reverse centaurs here). Since we implemented them, we've not needed to hire more.

Your metaphor is perfect!

I try to search - AI humps my leg. I shop online - useless AI assistant humps my leg. I phone a company for customer service - oh you better believe some stupid AI voice humps my leg.

How could I ever live without it?

If I touch the phone in just the wrong way it starts doing AI at me. Turns out it starts doing AI at me if I hold the power button down to turn it off.

Execs: "AI engagement is extremely high."

Win debloater. You can kill cp entirely and save your bullshit gutting script to run again in the future

You should install Linux!

I guess we just have to accept meth being forced into everything because the cat is out of the bag!

Me, an ADHD sufferer, "Yeah, meth is terrible. But please don't try to ban amphetamines universally."

The loss of AI would barely be noticable for the average person. A bunch of developers would have a bad day trying to remove all that integration they were forced by management to add, but beyond that, people would move on.

Removing the Internet as a whole at this stage would be basically impossible without halting pretty much every economic force on the planet, I think. The Internet acts as the backbone of pretty much everything related to monetary transactions or logistics in general.

I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet.

I mean, I considered the internet a godsend for a whole host of reasons and have been much better off with it than without it. Auto-Nav alone has saved me more hours utterly lost in my car than I care to think about.

But i would manage either way.

Wouldn't really have a choice.

But then that's the thing with AI. It's not "the internet". It's this superfluous annoying add-on that keeps getting forced into platforms I was perfectly happy to use without it.

I'm constantly "choosing" not to use it and then finding the damned thing branded onto the ass-end of whatever new application or environment I approach.

Jokes on you, I use AI as a search engine to wade through all the other AI generated slop. It works some of the time, unlike google which is only ads.

I’m so close to being able to retire on all this clout I’ve amassed by not using AI.

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That's also how I felt when I was first prescribed stimulants

Look man, im already starving, you dont need to make me hungrier comparing it like that

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Oh yeah, I like the way you talk.

This is really what has put me off AI, yes there are the ethical and environmental considerations and they worry me too but ultimately it's the price, and the knowledge that the price inevitably will increase.

I don't want to build all my workflows on a system that not only do I not really control I don't even have a fixed price for. That just seems like a really bad design.

I also dislike using Microsoft 365 for the exact same reason. I do not want to rest my business model on someone else's business model.

AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren't very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What's happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, and it is on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.

The internet didn't vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.

I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.

I like to think about the fact that most AI companies lose huge sums of money, and that it can't really be maintained. It'll naturally become an expensive tool after the "hype" dies down. It'll no longer be worth it to put it in everything, to message random shit to it etc.

I've never understood the appeal of the "smartified" appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was dumb and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don't need smart light switches asI can turn my own lights on it's not that difficult, I don't need a smart fridge either, not unless it's going to stock itself.

I can't think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.

But it’s the universal shoveling bus

Yep. I could run one locally, it just wouldn't be as good and I don't see much benefit even with today's models.

My computer belongs to me.