As a nicotine addict, I wouldn’t advise this. Making every one of us go cold turkey in one moment will be the end of humanity. Nicotine withdrawal is no joke.
I don’t understand your fury to be honest. It’s unhinged. So what happened to make you feel this way?
It’s such a brilliant show. I also love the fact that there are weird little unexplained things that only make sense way later but actually hinted at major plot points.
Walter: “You used to love pancakes” Peter: “I’ve never liked pancakes”
I paraphrase but two major elements of the plot right there.
I love it but it’s so hard to watch. My insides hurt.
My wife can’t handle the pain.
It’s fun if you’re running Linux.
I was where you were a few months ago. It’s an awful feeling and I’ve been obsessed with computers for 28 years. This has been exceptionally difficult for me. I had a really rough year end where I was working on recurring critical defects for weeks. I caused most of them (proximate cause) but the state of the industry itself is what placed me in an impossible position where I was having to make things of poor quality that nobody likes.
Technology itself is not the problem. There is nothing inherently wrong with AI. The way it has presented itself to the world is because of greed and a feeding frenzy. The way it is and works now makes it a bad tool. A tool that does a good job 80% of the time is garbage. It’s being shoved at us with little regard for us and the consequences.
But I am hopeful. I am using AI for my personal projects. It’s not really a choice for me. For many years I’ve tried to get people to work with me on something; anything really. But it either didn’t happen or fizzled out very quickly. These are ideas that I couldn’t execute on my own, and now I can.
So there is a way to find opportunity in chaos. And this is the phase we are in.
I can also see positive things coming out of this. I’ve seen quite a few total newbies who switched to Linux who said they would have been stuck without AI and given up.
The failure of this massive experiment will become the basis for new innovation. We should be perplexed at where we are now, considering how windows forms apps were easier to build 15 years ago than a basic web app is now. We accumulated a lot of complexity without our productivity increasing, instead we are in desperation trying to throw money and “compute” at the complexity.
AI kind of feels like asbestos to me. Too useful to ignore and too harmful to embrace. But I really think that from some unexpected corners we might see a new era for technology emerging. I am optimistic.
I see it as the pyramids of our time. You would think with all that money they would build a canal to bypass the straight of Hormuz, but no, islands shaped like trees.