The future of software and technology was already looking pretty bleak pre-AI. Now the AI slopification of everything feels like the final death blow to me.
Really? AI is finding and fixing critical bugs that have existed for decades. Hobbyists are recreating and remixing closed source games that have been abandoned. It has never before easier for a total amateur or an experienced coder to create as capable tools as now.
Well if everyone starts just asking the LLM to write their essay and ask it for the answers on their math homework...are they really learning anything?
My tin-foil-hat theory in regards to bland architecture and a sea of black, gray, and white cars is that the world was made bleak so that we are more stimulated by our screens...becoming more hooked on them to get our dopamine hits.
That is ideal, but unfortunately nobody can afford homes these days so we're stuck with rarely available car ports in apartment complexes with no charging ports.
Still blows me away that we have 20 years of history showing that this is always the end result and yet people are still surprised when it happens. The memory retention of tech people is like that of a fruit fly.
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