Same. Every time I think about this, I come back to the fact that I was excellent at my job before AI, and even enjoyed aspects of it, so I would be fine if tomorrow it all blew up.

Same, I'd smash it like it was offering me a million dollars. I cannot think of a single positive thing that has come out of the AI boom. It has been a net negative for all of society.

Oh come on! I'll take a few years of expensive RAM in order for humanity to get wide access to something near as makes no difference to the Star Trek Ship computer.

Which is 100% what this has felt like to work with, all spring and summer.

So we're in a slop phase, it'll pass. The first few years of youtube gave no hints that we'd get stuff like Veritasium.

Ignore the slop and use the tools to create something you never thought you could do. That's what it's for!

Same here, the usefulness of the slop machines is quite limited compared to the downsides.

Hey everyone, stop progress! Wolrah has decided that November 29, 2022 is as far as things should go. Because everyone knows before that day, there were no scams, every artist lived lavishly from commissions, and software was flawless and without any extraneous features.