Personally, I don't have any electronic drudgery to outsource. However, I do have to deal with all the ways that AI has made my life worse.

We were already getting great for nothing and dealing with that problem to financing custom fit. Now we have mediocre and customized for nothing.

I find it great for experiments to throw away but I wish everyone remembered step 2 more often.

We're redirecting an increasingly large portion of the world's R&D funding into building data centres to run LLMs which can barely speak English ("Good observation - that's the pivot point. I'll land the load bearing backstop.") and which turn what should be 100 lines of code into 4000.

The end result for me has been that I am now a gatekeeper trying to prevent AI slop making its way into systems which I care about, and failing, and getting dragged into meetings with my boss about how my performance has gone down now that I'm chained to this stupid thing and forced to use it for even the most trivial tasks.

I haven't been this upset with PayPal mafia overlords since crypto.

> Maybe it's AI psychosis speaking but how can you not be excited? You can outsource virtually all electronic drudgery for $100/mo.

"Electronic drudgery" is how I earn my income which pays for my food and shelter. That's why I'm not excited.

What the hell am I supposed to be excited about? Endless slop? Career change from intellectually stimulating creation to bland gatekeeping?

There is nothing fun about programming anymore. The joy is completely gone. I would switch careers if I could make money elsewhere.