I'd love to see the number of man hours that led to that sentence, and how proud they were to have come up with it.

Life and death policies being made by people who last week you were arguing about whether using Kubernetes is worth it for a throwaway project, or whether tabs or spaces are more appropriate.

Pre-2022, when someone posts a Show HN, even if it's not something you would normally be interested in, there's a baseline understanding that _someone_ cared enough to spend time and effort to build it. So in a hypothetical future scenario if you do find yourself looking for that particular tool, there was value in you seeing that Show HN so you can revisit it.

Now, I just ignore all Show HN posts.

But I've started to deliberately constrain myself because of what you describe. Sure, I'm not convinced that it actually come to fruition, but just the realization that this is what they're daydreaming about makes me sick so I've forced myself to only do the bare minimum or less now.

The value is somewhere else (i.e. being able to brag at the next conference/dinner/awards show and to not feel like a loser)

Once that value is no longer there, I will stock up on popcorn. Sure Labubus are still around and still have "users", but...

"But I being poor, have only my dreams. I lay my dreams upon your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams."

If the people aren't needed then why dedicate robots and land to feed them, for free?

> I think may be the government. The population will have to pay taxes for their maintenance. But it will be vastly less.

Taxes from what?

Now the reasonable ones might think "hey, even if that sounds 'rational', isn't that very risky? What happens if the machines don't actually cut it? Then we'd be stuck with not enough people to support our lavish lifestyles? And we can't exactly spin up millions of people in an instant, so where does that leave us?"

Well, they wouldn't be billionaires if they were reasonable so here we are.

As the saying goes: "It takes a village to raise a billionaire"

Is this comment funny text or something more damaging?

"We built a machine that takes everything everyone published online for free and regurgitates it while taking up $1T of combined investments and energy/water costs and we promise to make your job obsolete. And oh yeah we need your mum's retirement funds to keep going."

Yes, that's amazing. Let's go. Full speed ahead, we need to take this as far as we can.

"My little library prints some funny text to stdout."

Oh no that's too dangerous why would anyone risk their reputation like that.

No, they need to keep changing the models. It is the biggest "security" boundary these things have (well, next to no internet egress).