When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn't have drivers to support USB and we couldn't upgrade the computers because the software wouldn't work on any other hardware.

So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.

Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn't build an "if no AI" failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it

I know my work already has reports built by running data through Claude and having it spit out an xls. Though, it's not quite as integral as the all-important closet laptop.

This guy ITs

Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)

Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage. At least as far as the average person goes. Obviously anyone passionate about tech will be far ahead of the average person, regardless of age

As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!

They will if you don't use AI though

I've actively started doing tickets manually again. Just reviewing is exhausting, and yes, in part because I'm overwhelmed by what I don't understand. I'm somewhat new in our codebase and letting AI do all the work means I'll never get to know it in depth. That means I'm not meeting the productivity goals managers have already adopted, though. :/

If we shutdown AI there'd also be a massive hiring spree and wages would probably tick up a bit to compensate. AI is just the latest scam to suppress workers and wages. They want perpetual suffering for us and infinite gains for themselves.

I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it'd be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.

Everybody thinks AI can do every job except their own.

Legitimately my problem when the internet stops working. My first instinct is to go on the internet and search for what the blinking light means.

At this point I’d rather turn it off, since iOS spell check csnt stop replacing real words with those I accidentally butchered once

I can totally turn it off, but it's going to slow me way down as I'd re-read everything and go back and make edits.

My autocorrect is my nemesis. The phone I had before this one had pretty solid autocorrect, but this current one has an autocorrect that is so terrible I'm forced to correct my autocorrect constantly.

Should probably do what you do and turn it off and see what happens.

I turned off spellcheck and autocorrect years ago when I first got a smartphone, and never looked back.

An actual picture of 2026 from the "no pivot to AI" universe

AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.

We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.

Turn off all the AI and I can't play Halo anymore because the enemies don't do anything

turn off all ai and you kill caine

Jup, it's as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.

Turn off ALL AI and you'll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!