purrtastic

You missed the other key detail: “and raised the price regardless of whether we use AI”.

I finally migrated my work email from Google workspace specifically because they jacked the subscription price and justified it due to Gemini, a tool I never used.

For Google Ads at least, it’s pay per click not impression

Can you not just make sure YouTube gets none of your money by using a front end that strips out all ads and sponsored segments? My kids watch YouTube but they’ve never seen an ad.

The generation that grew up with ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga etc knows how to use computers.

Terraria. Every time I fire up the deck to buy a new game, a few days later I am back to Terraria.

Still on Reddit? Use a comment and post wiper now, before you get banned.

I just tried this out after wiping all my comments, let’s see if I get a ban

My case in point. Instead of farming out translation jobs for 12 languages in WPML to people, we now auto translate all content via AI. That’s jobs lost. Complicated legal docs is an edge case in the content world.

Cursor is agent mode with Claude 3.7 absolutely writes well enough after indexing our codebase to mean less junior devs. I’m sorry that doesn’t fit into your narrative.

That’s not to say the world isn’t full of AI slop, and there aren’t huge issues around LLMs, But there are some solid use cases for this technology in replacing meat bags.

Translators and junior level devs.

Consciousness is infinite. The meatbag is temporary.

MTV should play music videos (gasp)

It’s nowhere near as bad here in NZ