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Exactly. Not only have the prices gone up, they've gone up for no real reason other than some CEOs are attempting to take over society. The average person isn't
by pesus 5mo ago
Exactly. Not only have the prices gone up, they've gone up for no real reason other than some CEOs are attempting to take over society. The average person isn't even seeing much of the upside of modern technology anymore, just the downsides. Gadgets no longer get cheaper over time, experiences no longer improve over time, and every new startup or innovation seems to be used to make their lives worse, whether directly or indirectly.
The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech - and the minuscule benefits they may possibly sometimes get are easily outweighed by the negative effects. Say what you will about the morality of bread and circuses, but making them increasingly out of reach seems like a very bad idea to me.
- ericd 5mo ago>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.
- mrhottakes 5mo agoMost people I know don't use chatbots and don't find them helpful.
- kotaKat 5mo agoAnd can 'most people' even afford most of these services? Having seen some people's spend, even a $200/month plan has me questioning why I'd spend $200/month on Anthropic products when $200/month would be a substantial chunk of my housing as a blue-collar class IT worker just to survive.
- LtWorf 5mo agoI own an apartment, my heating/electricity/water/internet/repairs costs ~400$/month.
- ericd 5mo agoYou don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most.
- brianwawok 5mo agoFor coding or talking to it? $20 is ok to chat I guess. $100 is minimum if you do this for a job.
- ericd 5mo agoIf you’re writing software professionally, does the “can’t afford to pay for Claude code” they were talking about apply?
- eudamoniac 5mo agoYou are feeding customer/employer code into systems that the customer/employer has not provisioned for you?
- brianwawok 5mo agoI run my own business, I am the employer.
- LtWorf 5mo agoMy salary hasn't been increased to pay for this extra helpfullness.
- wao0uuno 5mo ago>It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches. Ah yes that's certainly worth more than a steady job market, low inflation and affordable goods. Get real.
- ericd 5mo agoI think I'm already real? The main reasons for inflation, outside of computer components, are related to the fact that we're near the end of a long-term debt cycle. Look at demographics and monetary/fiscal policy. This is just the scapegoat du jour for long-term structural issues. Stability in the job market seems to mean stagnation in the long term. That's fine in the short run, but eventually, you're Germany/France and major pillars of your economy are cornered and in trouble. Personally, I think the move is total at-will employment paired with UBI rather than the heavy-handed employer regs that those countries have for stability, and I think that's where we're going to have to go if job losses really start materializing.
- Corence 5mo agoGoogle search is worse because of recent AI tech flooding the internet with misinformation and low quality articles.
- ericd 5mo agoLow paid humans have been pumping out low quality SEO slop full of misinformation for at least the last 15-20 years, it’s not much different. If anything, the quality is probably somewhat higher.
- charcircuit 5mo ago>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech ChatGPT and Gemini offer enormous consumer value for free.
- pesus 5mo agoWhat value do they get that both couldn't be done before and outweighs the costs?
- charcircuit 5mo agoPersonalized learning. Some people on the US were paying over six figures to be educated and now they can do it at a much better quality for free.
- brianwawok 5mo agoCollege was never about learning it was about signaling. I get two resumes on my desk, one went to Harvard, one learned about stuff on ChatGPT. Which has a higher likelihood of being a success?
- charcircuit 5mo agoIt defends how you want to define success, but I would lean towards ChatGPT.
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- Capricorn2481 5mo agoYou would lean towards a resume that says "I learned from ChatGPT"? What does that even mean?
- charcircuit 5mo ago