All I said was it’s a waste of money, if that feels like a personal attack, that sucks.

You don’t have enough yes people around you clearly!

Honestly though, can we really call these people smart anymore?

I think they’re just incredibly greedy.

Do they think this is gonna play well with their security minded base?

Cancelling isn’t that hard.

Yea that’s fine but if the majority of your life is getting home unexpectedly late and exhausted, you have other more pressing problems.

Cooking is normal, healthier, cost saving, fun, etc.

Try again lol.

Wife and I clear 6 figures easy.

That shit is still a massive waste of money and it barely even saves time half the damn time because the drivers are awful.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but depression is only made worse by overspending on luxury food because you couldn’t do dishes.

Thats wild. I instacart maybe 3 times a year but have done it for years in a pinch.

Haven’t used any other food delivery for years because they’re a complete ripoff.

$25 for two meals is kinda meh, it seems good relative to everything else now but you can make a weeks worth of food with $20 and the right veggies, noodles, and a protein.

If you discount or coupon shop you can get even better.

Unfortunately most people in the US don’t respect themselves enough to fight for the rights and wages to not have to work 60 hours a week and then they get convenient overpriced food.

It’s dumber when you consider that cooking is not only fun, but once you’re good at it, it’s really fast and easy to make a way better meal than you’d ever get.

I can make a better smash burger than 95% of the bullshit places popping up, and for a literal fraction of the cost.

How is this even possible?

Door dash sucks ass. Instacart has been the only delivery service I’ve never had an issue with around my area and now it’s fucked too?

I don’t get it

Isn’t it wild that most people don’t see the issue with the absolutely batshit excesses of capitalism while people are killed by health insurance companies denying necessary surgeries.

It’s like people think everything exists sequestered in its own separate box.

Failed to stop?

Is the writer fuckin stupid?

He CAUSED most of the current US inflation that the previous admin had made progress on getting under control.

Can we at least be accurate with the fucking news.

It’s more than anti intellectualism though.

Many people are just sick of being forced into a society that only values productivity, gives nothing back to you for your efforts, and expects more time out of your week than you get with your family.

AI hasn’t solved any of that, it’s made all of it worse.

LLMs have accelerated people’s worst aspects.

And your comment is an incredibly reductive view of people who have already been effected negatively by AI.

You are adding to the same bullshit you claim to be making a smart comment against.

Try again.

Fair enough!

I’ve been vocally against Linus AI advocacy, but I do understand all the points you make here.

I don’t like that a lot of stupid people will take Torvalds use and embrace of AI as gospel that AI is some be all end all.

I also LOATH that he is indirectly benefitting fascist corporations that committed the largest theft in human history.

But the code is good 🤷‍♂️

To say I am conflicted, is an understatement.

Yes thank you!

Can’t believe I forgot the INSANE amount of waste

Use a damn French press.

It’s not hard.

These stupid machines suck, make shit coffee, and surveil you.

People are so lazy

Yea it’s almost like American politicians on the right have run a 40 year long campaign to weaken unions, turn people against them, and even attempt to outlaw them.

Nothing works if the government doesn’t, I hate to break that to people but politics is life.

Exposing teens to LLMs is going to have really bad outcomes.

We already see it’s a mass psychosis machine, and it atrophies your brain and cognitive abilities.

This is going to be a disaster.

Exactly.

And it’s not just programming, it’s in every career, artistry, journalism, etc.

When barriers are extremely low, one side effect is you no longer have the passionate people as easily rise to the top.

You have a shit load of people with surface level or worse understandings of things in charge.

See the following:

Parts of Hollywood from studios to directors, nepotism and mbas nearly ruined cinema.

Gaming companies often sell out to go public or allow themselves to be bought by soulless corps, this often but not always goes very very wrong.

The music industry is RIFE with plants, nepotism, and absolute garbage music.

Now programming is opened to the masses.

And you even have people like Linus Torvalds taking what I think is a stance that likely makes sense for him, but is such a damning thing to openly say because people take Torvalds use of AI as a blanket “look he uses it so it must be ok” where there is SO much nuance.

I miss times before AI lol

Really?

Because nearly each time I point out that software has been getting so bad that I legitimately can’t go more than 1 day without wild bugs in everyday software that was fine 6 years ago, I’m surrounded by 17 AI bros screeching about how “umm actually I’m way more productive and AI has found 6,500 issues in this code and that’s great!”

Yea what’s not great is when they use AI to “patch” the vulnerabilities.

You ever try to go back in basically any industry and figure out what the fuck the last person at a job site did?

Now imagine that, except instead of intuitively being able to figure some things out because human thought is at least a base to start from, you have no fucking clue what the AI was thinking.

AI is also a massive shortcut that tugs your dick anytime you use it.

Humans can’t be trusted to not optimize every little thing, and AI is taking advantage of that.

I genuinely pine for a time when it was hand coded and I’m tired of pretending this is better