> Any semblance of pushback is decried as ignorance, or a threat to global competition. No one wants to be called a Luddite. I wasn't expecting to be a Luddite

> Any semblance of pushback is decried as ignorance, or a threat to global competition. No one wants to be called a Luddite. I wasn't expecting to be a Luddite at 36, but I am. I not only agree with the author, but, more generally, also really dislike the way that the future is developing. I have zero interest in today's version of social media. The version that keeps people glued to their phone screens at all times, mindlessly viewing or scrolling through near-zero-substance content, giving constant hits of dopamine to break down self-control. I have very conflicting feelings about _kids_ getting sucked into this, I.e. a parent handing their child a tablet at a restaurant to stop the crying. I absolutely hate how abused phone notifications are and have most turned off. I'm actually uninstalling more apps in favor of their websites (while that is still possible), partly because of this, and partly because of the tracking these apps do that you can't easily turn off. Voice assistants are buggy as hell and are annoying to use more often than not. I turned off Siri on everything except my Apple Watch. Lastly, I have absolutely no use for LLMs. I really like being able to write code or learning how to write boilerplate in other languages. I like understanding everything that's going on and what incremental progress looks like. I like searching for answers on search engines and reading through answers or (sometimes) documentation to find what I'm looking for. It is blisteringly obvious that the goal of big LLM is to (a) get users to think less, criticize less (because why criticize if ChatGPT tells you the "right" answer every time), and consume more, and (b) to centralize wealth in companies that are big enough to scour the Internet, train their own LLMs on that data and generate answers with minimal latency.