alt Hacker NewsCognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?
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What I think this was intended to say was that a lot of nonsense work can be done by AI, so let’s eliminate the nonsense work. Valid, but consider that you may be protected too by the amount of paperwork it takes to hurt someone.
I don’t entirely disagree with the premise persay - but then I think this warps the incentives, we’ll spend more and more on tokens because there will be more and more forms. We’ll add microtransactions to every form AI parses.
It all seems like an improvement in this world, but wait until the enshittifiers figure out all the ways they can abuse this process. They can add new micro taxes you won’t even know about!
As an SRE, I think this question comes up which is like would you ever trust AI to manage your infrastructure, and I think capability wise maybe, but long term I think it’s going to lead to some wacky incentives/interaxtions.
I’m not the person who reads every line of code, but we are in a golden age of AI right now where “I don’t have to understand anything I can just let the AI do it all” feels like a possible future.
instead of me using my brain to figure out the web of emails and contacts for an integration project, I can connect [AI] to my email inbox and say "who the fuck do I need to talk to to get an answer for where this project is”
> I look at Apple crushing decade old bugs and technical debt
Specifics on this? There is zero evidence of this.
I have a business. Sometimes I buy things on Amazon. At tax time, I search for the big business items and categorize them in QuickBooks until I give up.
You know who doesn't give up? Claude, who doesn't seem to realize how shitty and slow QuickBooks Online is. It's even happy to click 19 times to do a split because I dared to add a router and shampoo to the same Amazon cart in a weak moment of convenience one night back in February 2025.
Some so-called skills are worth letting atrophy. Whatever I used to do with a janky browser plugin and two monitors full of Excel windows at tax time is one of them.