The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
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very_well_lost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
Yeah if AI was actually good you wouldn’t need to mandate it. No one was like “everyone here must use Google search”.
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also there was a brief time within the Linux community, hen asking for solutions in forums were disencouraged in favor of using Google, especially as that time Google was seen as a force of good, as Chrome wasn’t the RAM-eating beast powering almost all browsers and ~80% of desktop apps, also not even the content ID system was implemented on YouTube. This made the Linux community more toxic to newbies, hindering its adoption rates to this day, with memes claiming “you should google forums telling you to google the problem”.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, the people in companies pushing and making this AI slop treat it like toxic waste, and the author thinks that they’re the problem?
I suddenly want to look at his AI map thingy and see how bad it is.
audaxdreik@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I mean, clicking through to his website shows the branding alternate between Wanderfugl(?) and WanderFull so either it’s a sloppy branding mismatch through evolving iterations or … slop. Image
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Wanderfugl” is a name so bad it legitimately sounds like a Rick and Morty joke.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eww. It’s a LLM travel agent.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This whole article is just a condescending mess.
“Why does everyone who has been repeatedly burned by AI, time and time again, whether that be through usable software becoming crammed full of useless AI features, AI making all the information they get less reliable, or just having to hear people evangelize about AI all day, not want to use my AI-based app that takes all the fun out of deciding where you go on your vacation???”
(yes, that is actually the entire proposed app. A thing where you say where you’re going, and it generates an itinerary. Its only selling point over just using ChatGPT directly is that it makes sure the coordinates of each thing are within realistic travel restrictions. That’s it.)
philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I didn’t fully grok how tone deaf I was being though.
WTF does this mean???
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Grok” was briefly a real(ish) word back in the 60’s, after Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land first came out. It faded into obscurity over the last few decades until Elon ressurected it, and now writers are unironically utilizing it again for some reason.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People using the word “grok” has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I’m not joking, that’s the book.
It was always elder developers who didn’t wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I see he’s still completely tone-deaf, too.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You can bacially replace grock with “clock”, or, even better, “notice.”
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This reads like someone who wants to write on linked in but couldn’t even be taken seriously there.
kyonshi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This author was sooo close to get it
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bro should ask a coal miner what they think about their bbq grill next time.