Oldchap(22:12:22)
There was a scene at the end of Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where the guy whose job was replaced by a robot got a new job fixing the robot. But if only it could work out like that for everyone...
mirrorbird(22:10:27)
zoi said: well now you have job security in repairing their AI slop. which is probably true but extremely depressing.
mirrorbird(22:10:01)
people who just doa thing because "it seemed like the best-paying job" it's so awful. KILL ME AGEMIXER
mirrorbird(22:09:41)
think of a guy who hand-carves a chair out of a block of wood. and how he feels about the factory making some shit that will last oooh probably 20 years. but not 200
mirrorbird(22:08:06)
do. like the furniture maker. haha. THANKS i'm done.
mirrorbird(22:08:02)
if i saw my old system dying i would probably do a small amount of work to keep it alive, for free. because i made it with love (unlike every web designer who writes "with HEART-SYMBOL"). i am a shit coder compared to most of you too. but i respect what i
mirrorbird(22:07:41)
i do not hang around demo people (except this oneliner!) so i mostly see it in the jobless "entrepreneur" type who think they are hot shit if they can generate code without coding. there's no love, skill, ownership, just "MAKE DOLLARS".
mirrorbird(22:05:09)
i am also made very sad by the mentality that says "yeah but it made more money". Principle of the Thing. -- well we did talk about AI stuff. it's gross it's very anti-scene, it's anti-creative.