> "Good enough" is exactly the reason that AI is upending the world of white collar work. It might not replace a skilled and experienced employee, but it's good enough.

I don't necessarily have a problem with that. The problem is, skilled workers only become skilled after being inexperienced for a while and gaining experience. If you cut junior, unskilled workers from the job market, you won't have skilled workers in a few years.

In other words, company that adopt AI to avoid paying unskilled labor are shooting themselves in the foot.

Whether you like AI or not, if your profession is about to be obsoleted by AI, AI Is factually bad for you.

Beyond that, it's up to you to decide if it's worth paying a talented human writer to report on local events in a local rag. Most of those newspapers are strictly utilitarian and simply inform the locals of what's happening in their communities. I've never seen any of them dabble in gonzo.

And well, journalism is like football: most professional footballers play in minor leagues and don't earn much, and only a vanishingly small minority earns top dollar playing incredible matches watched by millions.

High-flying journalists writing for classy newspapers will most certainly keep writing their own stuff. But the mundane will probably be taken over by AI because mediocre is good enough for the money.

I should have written "90% of people have the SAME abnormal thing". I've been thoroughly out-pedanted. Well done Sir :)

If 99% of people have something abnormal, isn't it in fact the norm?

Open the link in a new tab to avoid that problem.

But yes, you're right, it's yet another problem with infinite scrolling.

Infinite scrolling == infinite memory usage.

Whenever I go to some forum that's heavy on pictures and videos that has infinite scrolling, and I'm looking far down the page for something or other, eventually my browser slows to a crawl, or the browser's resource-hungry JS engine crashes, and that's the end of the scrolling.

Certain sites I patronize that have the stupid infinite scrolling also have the classic &page= HTTP GET mechanism. On those sites, every once in a while, I reload the entire page with a &page= corresponding to roughly where I am in the infinite scrolling, just to reset it and free up some memory.

It's not the UI paradigm that bothers me, it's the resource usage insanity.

It's very telling that you think someone who relocated to Europe "struck it rich" and "lives with the elite": it show how much of a dump you think America is in comparison.

Even if their island becomes 100% hostile to all life, the Icelanders can always power artificial life with the free energy they're blessed with: the uninterrupted source of heat coming from the bowels of the Earth.

They're in a quasi-unique position of not really having to worry about climate change, if worse comes to worst.

has been utter shit for decades. It glorifies overtime over everything else - including over metrics that could be improved with less overtime, such as quality and efficiency.

AI is just more of the same: turbocharged shit.

I'm saying this as an American expat living in Europe and actually having a quality of life and work/life balance I never had stateside.

For the MAGA dimwits, getting rid of negative value non-white people results in an effective population increase.

On the plus side, TV has hit rock bottom decades ago, and films aren't far behind. Using AI to make shit faster is kind of fitting really.

Correct, Mistral.

I was evaluating AI coding assistants for my company a while ago, and of course Claude Code was on my shortlist. But after discussing Anthropic's collaborating with the fascist US regime, our company decided to practice economic withdrawal and take our money to a European supplier.

Can't blow anymore hot air into it?

Translation: Silicon Valley is the Schrader valve overinflating the AI tire.