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New comment by partyficial in "AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development"

partyficial — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:20 +0000

he(zozbot234) could also be agreeing with OP, not disagreeing.

I don't remember phone numbers anymore. If I were to lose my phone, or the cloud, I'm SOL re-adding everyone.

New comment by partyficial in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

partyficial — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:23:56 +0000

> If AI can do everything and gets everyone out of jobs

Not everything - Many things.

Not everyone - Many ones.

The people who cannot compete fade out, and the ones that are left reap the benefit of the machines. Just like one farmer reaps the benefit of a tractor that replaced 20 laborers.

The earth population keeps reducing until it is kinda a vacation resort for 100 billionaires + others who work for them + machines.

Then some politician who promises to be a voice for the people uses force/army to kick the billionaires out, redistribute the wealth, and then the population increases and the cycle continues.

This has been happening and will continue to happen until the heat death of the universe. (and then repeat after it gets created again).

New comment by partyficial in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

partyficial — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:57:24 +0000

How long was the internet around before it became essential for every day life?

New comment by partyficial in "DIY Soft Drinks"

partyficial — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:55:00 +0000

I love ginger ale. One small can a day kinda guy. But don't want any ingredients I don't know.

So, I bought these 4:

- DrinkMate soda maker (with CO2 cylinders)

- fresh squeezed ginger juice (not from concentrate)

- fresh squeezed lemon juice

- unpasteurized honey

Mix water + 3 ingredients + CO2. Shake and chill in freezer for 5 minutes while gas dissolves.

Get 400ml/day ginger ale at home - lasts lunch & dinner.

New comment by partyficial in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

partyficial — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:03:24 +0000

Early stages of any major disruptive technology will have hype due to get-rich-quick folks. Dot-com boom & bust of 2000 is similar. But the underlying technology (internet) defined our lives forever.

I don't know why people are comparing the Day-1 of one technology with the Day-1000 of another. Yes, AI is useless in many fields - NOW. But you can't imagine doing any work without in a couple years.

Like the kids used to ask - 'How did they build Google without Google?'

Now their kids will ask - 'How did they build chatGPT without chatGPT'?

New comment by partyficial in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

partyficial — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:29:44 +0000

I present a new name for this - FAKE CODE.

This is simply the next iteration of FAKE NEWS. We have been steadily democratizing and thus lowering the verification standards:

Verified News (AP/Reuters) --> Opinion pieces (Fox/CNN) --> Social media (Tiktok/Youtube).

Verified Code --> Vibe Code

Democracy gave everyone a vote - was that a good thing ?

Social media gave everyone a visual - was that a good thing ?

AI gave everyone a vibe - was that a good thing ?

The trust factor never went away. It just got dispersed and diluted.

New comment by partyficial in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

partyficial — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:22:36 +0000

My first job was a SQL DBA. 15 years and 5 companies later, this startup I'm at (which got acquired recently), still uses SQL Server. It has stood the test of time.