I feel similarly but if people want to hate on AI, they're free to do so I guess

Opposite of my experience, I think AI gives tools to expand thinking and creativity significantly, leading to much more interesting results

Upper middle absolutely causes a lot of problems; surprised more people aren't focused on them

It’s easier for the top 10% to blame the top 0.1% and absolve themselves, in spite of the knowledge that this changes nothing. Americans especially are averse to the idea that the middle class owes anything to anyone.

Sorry, on HN I wasn't expecting any attention from somebody who is fully convinced that no young people have parents, or something like that.

I'm curious what an ai optimist article looks like in contrast to this pessimistic (even if possibly realistic) take

Let me add some constraints: AI optimists that aren’t selling me “how to use vercel to make $1M per week in 10 minutes”

I love AI, I enjoy using it at work. I fear AI, the amount of work it does for me feels existentially threatening. We live in exhilarating times.

Fair to say it's not an addiction but habit forming?

Just like food, gaming, exercise, certain drugs...?

For example with certain drug addictions there is a direct physical danger of overdose which doesn't exist in the same way with social media

I think it's just that grammar is independent of getting results; so bosses who might get results might also have bad grammar. Having good grammar doesn't make you any more able to get things done - in other words, someone with bad grammar might be more able to get things fone than someone with good grammar

Honestly even before AI, open source or other things made it possible to skip a lot of subscriptions

Hopefully RISC-V pulls ahead in coming years and gets an even bigger "slice"

RISC-V is eating the "low power low performance"-niche alive right now. ARM-licensed microcontrollers (like STM32C0) cannot keep up with this price class. That's a huge business.

Have a look at WCH. If you are used to the ST-HAL style you get that stuff running within a hour. They stuff works will fully opensourced compilers.

RISC-V is rapidly growing the strongest ecosystem.

maybe it wasn't a "party balloon"

Probably more nonprofits could be started that just cost extra money to recycle stuff (like, you might not be able to make it into a business where the recycled stuff pays for itself, but people might be willing to pay to prevent e-waste from being created)