My manager has gone 100% into AI where he might have been slightly skeptical at first, it's slightly scary, I see many of the benefits of modern AI, specially in helping me deal with my ADHD, but I feel like what differentiates me from the masses is gone. Middling coding skills, doesn't matter, ability to recall obscure knowledge I read or learned about years ago, doesn't matter, why would I be a valued employee while still having to deal with the negative side effects of ADHD? On top of that, immigrants getting hunted for sport on the streets, I'm not doing too good.

"Oops. We thought the workers would demand lower pay."

I keep hearing how Claude is so much better and I need to try it. Furthermore, last night I had an AI Expert spend an hour telling me how Claude could just do things by itself and how great it is.

So I paid the money got Claude. I gave it a task to summarize a bunch of press releases and put them into a newsletter. After spending a lot of time getting the formatting, perfect I went to fact check what had been written.

About a third of it was totally hallucinated

This was today

All it had to do was read press releases and make a summary and it couldn’t do that without hallucinating a bunch of fake DEI facts that just weren’t true

So I tried to give it the task of verifying all of its declared statements and it ran out of juice so I have to wait till it resets.

Seriously, idk why no one is talking about this.

I’m not even demanding action, just talking about how we went through bad economic times, faced inflation just to arrive at this dystupidia hellscape.

Like if AI is gonna replace jobs (regardless of its capability), why the fuck are we not talking about UBI and VAT.

Where is Andrew Yang when you need him (not supporting him, just that this seems like a better moment for him than 6 years ago).

I retired just in time. Even in public service, I was under constant pressure to use more AI, but "all your code should be handwritten." Sheesh.