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Barbingyesterday at 5:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Optimists will imagine it to one day be as taxing and thus as wasteful as firing up MS Paint.

No that’s a stretch, but firing up a AAA game.


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Sharlinyesterday at 5:28 PM

At least you (hopefully) get hours of entertainment from firing up an AAA game. Whereas generating vast amounts of code that you're never going to use has… some novelty value, I suppose. Luckily the novelty is going to wear off soon, I can't really see many people getting their daily happiness boost from making code machine say brrrrt straight to /dev/null. Even generating smut is a vastly more understandable (and vastly more commonplace, even now) use case for running genAI every day for hours.

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