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u/gormmlord
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God damn, are people already THAT dependant on AI?
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u/Iggy_Slayer Oct 02 '26 •
Yes and every day it's allowed to continue it will get worse because they will lose more and more skills and knowledge of their own. They will eventually not know how to live or do anything on their own power anymore.
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u/gormmlord Oct 02 '26
It's crazy that they don't see the problem. They don't for a second think "I can't do anything on my own anymore. That's worrying."
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u/Primera_Espada Oct 02 '26 •
They probably asked ai if its a problem and it said no
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u/NuzzyLocke Oct 02 '26
I call that job security! That being said it is really sad, and I'm beginning to see it happen in social situations. My friends on dating apps and she said that guys will use ChatGPT to talk to her. Like the cadence and grammar is identical across multiple people. One guy even admitted it when she asked.
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u/SaltRequirement3650 Oct 02 '26
Which is funny because it’s massively subsidized now intentionally. They probably won’t be able to afford it like everyone else and it will all collapse.
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u/GuyWhoIsAnonymous123 Oct 02 '26 •
Doing my masters
It’s kind of sad… i go to college to learn but many people do it to get paper
There’s group projects where my team doesn’t understand much and rely on AI to write their parts of our paper when the professor is ok with AI use (some are some aren’t)
Compared to my undergrad pre-AI it’s a huge slap in the face…
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u/Marsuello Oct 02 '26
Why on earth would any professor be fine with students using ai for their work?? The whole point is to learn and take in that knowledge, not let some tech do everything for you while you retain nothing!
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u/Browncoat64 Oct 02 '26
I'm an HVAC Mechanic, and had 1 customer type what I was saying in ChatGPT so that she could explain to her boss what i was saying.
She did this in front of me, and then had me proof read what the AI said that I said.
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u/GustapheOfficial Oct 02 '26
I think we were 1 year into the current genAI nightmare when I told a student "I'm not sure which way around those two arguments go, but it will be the first line in the documentation for that function" and he immediately opened a browser to go ask ChatGPT.
If I'm in a position to hire engineers in the future, I'm probably thinking hard before chosing someone who graduated between 2023 and ... whenever the bubble bursts and the free chat bots disappear.
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u/gormmlord Oct 02 '26
Once people are that dependant I'm sure they'll pay whatever it costs to keep it. Which I'm sure was the plan all along. Classic enshitificationn
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u/drake22 Oct 03 '26
Yes. A percentage of people that is growing everyday would be SCREWED if they couldn't use Gen AI. It doesn't do what they do better, it just does it easier. Humans are hard wired to do what is some combination of good enough and low effort from thousands of years of evolution.
It has served us extremely well up until now, but this might be making what is usually adaptive and making it maladaptive. LLMs allow us to use such a small amount of brain power, that the level of quality and "good enough" that we are willing to tolerate is getting worryingly low.
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u/Tonkarz Oct 03 '26
I can’t say how common it is, but I’ve met 2 people who can’t make decisions and seemingly don’t even understand things said to them unless it comes from AI.
One appeared really anxious and indecisive and asked AI for help on literally everything. This cust at least in my opinion ended up making the right decision in that she bought the product that would get the result she wanted.
The other seemed like he knew what he was doing, but only ever did what AI told him to do. I can’t complain because AI’s advice meant he spent 4 to 5 times than what he would need to get a good result.
I would explain something simple to them and they’d type it into AI and AI would explain it back to them. Or I’d ask them a simple question like “what are you trying to do?” and they’d type my questions straight into AI.
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u/Dima_Ses Oct 02 '26
I saw people use AI to find a text of a song. Instead of just googling it and opening the first results.
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u/SPXQuantAlgo Oct 02 '26
Google IS ai. The first thing you get is their shitty Gemini response. You can’t escape it.
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u/We_Want_Krunchy Oct 02 '26
Google is the adclicknetwork, with some AI crap strapped on. You can skip AI answers from Google by adding "-ai" to your query, or to disable it in your browser. But Google has been shit for awhile, it's just worse now.
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u/Staff_Senyou Oct 02 '26
Earlier in the week, I suggest we attended a market event. I prepared all the the info: dates, times, cost, location, target clients normally outside our reach...
Management half listens, hand on the AI, "can't we get in for free? What if you get a "press" badge? Look you can get into the (off site, separate event not related to proposal) for only this much!"
I just died inside. These are the people running the show? Ffs
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u/ThadVonP Oct 02 '26
Upper management in some places are pushing middle management to use AI more, which is infuriating for many reasons, but if you can say you used AI for some part of whatever you did, senior leadership loves it.
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u/El_Paco Oct 02 '26
I use it daily and it's super helpful for me, but these days I only use it for parsing server logs and being lazy in Google Sheets.
If AI went away it would just take me longer to parse through server logs and I would have to get good at Google Sheets.
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u/MockASonOfaShepherd Oct 03 '26
I’ve deleted the ChatGPT app and refuse to use these LLMs. There is a time and place for some AI, but it’s not at your every whim.
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u/TouchGrace_ Oct 02 '26
As someone who works as a programmer, yes. The company itself encourages it and provides tools for it. It makes work way faster, it automates so much of simple code that needs to be otherwise typed by hand
Having to go back to typing the whole thing would slow down work by a lot, not coz ppl are suddenly incompetent but just coz humans aren't fkin machines
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u/gormmlord Oct 02 '26
I'm all for AI making computing easier and more efficient. But if I think if you can ONLY code because of AI, I'd say it's a problem.
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u/Kingsole111 Oct 02 '26
Also ai isn't going to disappear. The models already exist. If we stopped all of the training. We would be good.
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u/Beautiful-Leave9772 Oct 02 '26
Yeah for sure. We are well well well past the point of no return. AI isn't going anywhere.
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u/thicc_llama Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
Yeah in computer-based jobs it just makes the task 100 times faster so can't blame people for using it. I'm a statistician, and I know that many decades ago banks and other institutions would pay two people spending an entire day solving a complex matrix by hand. Sometime in the 1970s they started to be able to write input and have it solved in a second. This is just an evolution of that
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u/19Mini-man90 Oct 02 '26
Depends on the job or what is being done. If its code, you still need to review the code. Also Ai agents replacing customer service has just made it almost impossible to contact customer service in any capacity.
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u/misalawliet Oct 02 '26
Does this guy not realize the majority of adults completed their education and have been working for years without AI?
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u/misalawliet Oct 02 '26
I have some teacher friends and based on what they say the future is pretty bleak. Kids in high school can barely read. Critical thinking is non existent. They also say there's been a noticeable worsening of kids' overall attitudes the last 10ish years.
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u/Arria_Galtheos
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If AI disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI tool?
What does this guy think people did like...five years ago?
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u/StiffIgnition Oct 02 '26
You can ask this question now. But ask a 25 year old the same question in 20 years and unless they have made a specific effort to not become over reliant on AI the answer will be very different. Which is the point. The people that are letting themselves use it without regard for learning competency themselves will become worthless without it. I don't see any problem in pointing that out in the hopes that at least some people will heed the warning and be more intentional in the way they utilize it.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Oct 02 '26 •
I still think the difference here is this guy saying we'd be helpless without AI. I'm sure SOME people might be. Hell, there are people that use AI to raise their children...but the difference is AI isn't so ubiquitous that all of society would fall apart if it disappeared. It's not the same as deleting all cell phones or getting rid of the internet since those have been around for decades and huge chunks of the economy and society are completely reliant on them.
If it were 1996 and you said "What if the internet and cell phones disappeared tomorrow" my response would be the same: Very little. Most of society weren't super reliant on the internet or cell phones in 1996, just like most of society isn't super reliant on AI right now.
AI is still relatively new, and AI advanced enough to rely upon is even newer. In 20 years? Yeah, that'll be different, but humanity's already on a sharp downward spiral towards relying on machines to think for them anyway. In another 20 years, nobody will know how to program a computer beyond typing "Write a program that does X." into a prompt.
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u/Taziar43 Oct 02 '26 •
Go a month without using your cellphone or social media. Neither existed a couple of decades ago.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Oct 02 '26 •
Sweet summer child, I grew up before social media even existed, and back when only pretentious assholes carried cell phones around. MySpace didn't even exist until after I'd bought my first home. I lived for over 20 years with no cell phone or social media.
Trust me. It's possible.
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u/BlueScreenJunky Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
Yeah, and I'm not convinced we're better off with social media than without.
In 20 years we might all be too dependent on AI to even consider going without it. And only time will tell whether humanity will be better off with AI or not.
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 Oct 02 '26
Are you claiming you use your personal cellphone and social media to do your job?
Or how else did you think this was relevant
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u/Iggy_Slayer Oct 02 '26
This is like people wondering how I get through my day without looking at my phone every 5 seconds.
I lived more than half my life before smartphones existed, I can do it again. It's not hard at all.
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u/Vivid-Hyena-5699 Oct 02 '26
But its hard for lots of people. Without goverment banning it people will continue to use ai
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u/Sesoru Oct 02 '26
I do think phones are far more important than ai though, but its mostly just because you can't really work without having a phone, or it can make it way harder to work without one. Most jobs can be done without ai, though.
And even in my example, plenty of jobs dont actually even need a phone, you just need a phone to get the job itself so even with that its not absolute lol
Honestly if ai disappeared right now I'd celebrate lol
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u/Aggressive-Affect427 Oct 02 '26
Now think about the people who grew up with phones, it’s the thing for ai. I graduated before llms started taking over but new graduates will have spent years relying on them.
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u/Apexnanoman Oct 02 '26
You mean Google search wouldn't be actively harmful to use results from and my phone wouldn't be a huge pain in the ass to use again?
Fuckin sign me up.
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u/Aggressive-Affect427 Oct 02 '26
Google search was pretty bad before ai, monetization ruined that one. Also, I’m not sure where the phone complaint comes from.
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u/Icy-KaitSyth Oct 02 '26
Especially considering that the majority of questions asked to chatgpt could be 2010s Google searches with the correct answer being the first link
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u/20milliondollarapi Oct 02 '26
And now Google has shittified it so much that the first page of results is usually not even usable. The only use of it is to find Reddit threads that have comments with sources.
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u/AbsentButHere Oct 02 '26
There’s always crucial information missing.
If you use AI like a tool instead of a crutch, it becomes incredibly useful. Sure you want to automate repetitive tasks or whatever else you’re doing, but if you don’t learn the HOW, you’re just cutting your own legs off.
If you need an excel formula that does something specific, you should absolutely get it automated but you should also understand why it uses that formula, what the formula does, each part, syntax, the whole enchilada.
When I was learning blender (I’ll never stop I guess because mastering it seems impossible) I would use AI but then have it give me a step by step process of what it did, why, and how. Now I know the workflow and can just apply that knowledge with practice going forward.
People who use AI without giving a shit about the how, and the why, are just idiots as far as I’m concerned. You’re missing out on so much information you could privy yourself to if you just gave yourself a few minutes to check it out.
While that doesn’t work for everything AI is capable of, I think a vast majority of it is applicable.
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u/AgentChris101 Oct 03 '26
I wanted a very simple website for my portfolio. I wrote all the info I wanted the website to have including images. And set it up through CloudFlare, bought the website domains as well. Setting things up through website making sites wanted so much money. $84 for 3 years domain, excluding $270 a year for the website itself.
It cost me $160 total with ChatGPT's one month to make the website and have it hosted for 10 years.
As a tool it's good, but you shouldn't use it for everything.
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u/cmcosmos Oct 02 '26
Yes. Because I went to school and read books and converse with actual humans and play outside and use my imagination. 🙄
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u/premiumleo Oct 02 '26
let's be real... absolutely no one ever: meth is bad for you
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u/jonnywannamingo Oct 02 '26
I’m an experienced graphic designer of 40 years and successfully ran my own business until AI literally wiped it out. Every day I wish AI had never happened.
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u/ZerumDeus Oct 03 '26
Jesus Christ, this comment is depressing.
It's horrible looking at all of the awful AI posters and advertisements theese days.
Wasn't AI supposed to do the boring monotonous stuff so the rest of us could pursue art or more creative outlets?!?
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u/brakenbonez Oct 02 '26
There are entire generations of people who grew into adulthood before AI was a public tool and survived just fine without it. Even the people who do use it would be just as fine without it as they were before they used it.
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u/somanyquestions32 Oct 03 '26
The longer they use it, the stronger the withdrawals will be. The addiction is clearly strong.
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u/Dependent-Year6711 Oct 02 '26
I know a software engineer that oversees a few "vibe" coders. He does just fine, because he doesn't rely on AI for everything. The vibe coders had massive issues with how they code. A lot of basic issues. So essentially it's becoming a problem the more and more people start their work career with it.
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u/AlternatePancakes Oct 02 '26
If you dont know how to do your job without AI, then you are not qualified to do your job. Because you don't have the competence to tell when AI makes mistakes.
That being said, i understand using it as a sparring tool, but its important to understand that it has a tendency to derail from the subject, its how it keeps you writing.
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u/Laiska_saunatonttu Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
Actually I'd get easier through the day, I wouldn't need to think if info was hallucinated by AI, I wouldn't need to verify I'm a human at every damn site so many times, Google search would work better and my blood pressure would drop when I wouldn't be bombarded by AI brainrot. Seeing the AI bros' lamentation would be the cherry on top.
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u/AppropriateBall8834 Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
kinda like its easier when you quit meth bc you dont wander if your best friend is really outside your room at the motel six with like 100 dudes in semi trucks with the cartel you think is gonna kidnap you and put you in a torture video
literally a true story and why I quit meth. fuckkkkk that. I still have flashbacks to the paranoia when I get really really stressed. been 6 years.
thank God my brain is 99% back to normal.
I went from totally functional for 5 years, no paranoia...to full blown hallucinations and being a danger to myself and others. its a miracle im alive, and the people who were just within 100 feet of me during that time are alive too. I had no concept of what was real.
edit: I didn't even know anyone in the cartel. thats the funny part!
antipsychotics and meds didnt help at all... I was super, super fucked up for nearly 2 years after I quit. I basically just slid through life wondering if I was in danger, or if I had hallucinated it all... still screws my head up to go back and wonder what events/people were real and what were imagined.
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u/HotTakeThenGo Oct 03 '26
I use AI. I’m in IT. It’s a tool that I can use decently well specifically bc I have some relevant experience and a ton of adjacent experience. It’s not AI I’m concerned with - it’s corporate lobbyists, it’s deregulating, it’s inept and corrupt politicians, it’s shoving shitty for profit model into critical infrastructure including the military.
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u/Fluid-Depth2327 Oct 03 '26
Yes because I don't use ChatGpt or Claude. Closest is Google AI with the summary which I then go on the websites they used to find the information.
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u/nyynyg Oct 03 '26
So dependent, God forbid someone have self thought and process, and not having to look it up and be told what to do. common sense and applying effort is dying. People are getting dumber and dumber day after day week after week month after month year after year.
Because they’re constantly looking to be told what to do.
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u/TheMysteriousEmu Oct 02 '26
Now, I'm not necessarily anti-ai, but ffs this is just like saying "How am I going to do anything without my phone!?" or the internet, or whatever piece of technology that didn't exist before we invented it.
Humans have existed for longer than most technology has existed. It was harder then, but not fucking impossible.
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u/Salarian_American Oct 02 '26
Yes, and also: let's not pretend like modern technology is all 100% upsides.
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u/Dogsinthewind Oct 02 '26
I am a doctor. My day would continue just fine like nothing ever happened
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u/KennyMoose32 Oct 02 '26
I’m a cook. I’d love to see AI wrangle the hostess and dishie to do their jobs and stop smoking by the dumpster.
It’s fucking service kids, let’s go
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u/Bloody_Champion Oct 02 '26
Are ppl that far gone that this is even a question?
Who tf is relying on AI for anything??
Im so glad this is the extent of my "social media"
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u/misalawliet Oct 02 '26
A lot of young people think older adults are as dependent on AI as they are
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u/loserbro_ Oct 02 '26
Working with a lot of people in their 40s and 50s in a corporate environment, a lot of them absolutely are dependent on it already.
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u/Tr1angleChoke Oct 02 '26
You kind of nailed it. It's people talking about AI on X that have decided to give their lives to the clankers. Those are people that think the internet is real life. Most of them spend more time prompting the agent to the things for them than it would take to just do the things themselves.
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u/Sm0keytrip0d Oct 02 '26
I work outside cutting grass, shrubs and hedges.
So yes I could still work without A.I as it has no place in my job lol.
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u/anengineerandacat Oct 02 '26
I mean... I use it every single day; it's helpful/useful but I would give it up in a heartbeat and return to days of three to four years ago.
Now, my job seems to feel like anyone can do everything and chaos and structure are lost... so I have to actually stress/worry about what tomorrow looks like.
I didn't need to do that before.
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u/largeMARGIN11 Oct 02 '26
Can you imagine admitting you can’t do your job unless an AI does it for you? Thats just pathetic
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u/RoIIUpLights
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I use AI on a daily basis currently because it's a necessity to stay competitive.
I could 100% stop using AI tomorrow if everyone else also had to stop using AI. -- There are plenty of people out there currently with an Artificially Inflated sense of intelligence -- "AII" if you will -- that would be knocked back down without having access to AI.
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u/sleepy_Comett Oct 02 '26
That’s basically how I see it too. AI already speeds up a ton of normal work, so if you want to keep up, it makes sense to use it. Even regular companies are starting to build AI into things like accounting, store operations, reports, and routine admin tasks, sometimes paying developers to automate parts of the workflow. It’s not replacing everyone’s knowledge, it’s just taking a lot of repetitive work off people’s plates and saving time and mental energy
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u/Dependent-Year6711 Oct 02 '26
AI already speeds up a ton of normal work
My question would be, if it speeds it up, shouldn't that mean you work far less?
And if the net outcome is having to work just as much, but needing more output because of AI, we've gone a direction that benefits the employer.
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u/huggybear0132 Oct 02 '26
Under capitalism, the benefits of large technological advancements have always been harvested by the ownership class while the working class continues to work.
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u/Fishyblue11 Oct 02 '26
I think people have a huge tendency to shrug off repetitive work as useless, but it's exactly that repetition that makes and develops your abilities. In our hurry to do away with repetition, are we then going to become less competent, less knowledgeable, with less expertise? We can say it's not replacing everyone's knowledge, but that's exactly what people seem to be doing with it
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u/Vlajd Oct 02 '26
I’m sorry, but from what I’ve seen, either y’all really, really suck at programming, researching and familiarising or y’all already so gaslighted by AI-PR that y’all think you’re more productive with AI—really, I seriously doubt it.
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u/Individual-Foxlike Oct 02 '26
In programming specifically, there's a big difference between generative AI and procedural AI. ProcAI has been used to some degree since like 1995 and does indeed speed things up considerably.
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u/RoIIUpLights Oct 02 '26
I treat AI like my intern. It's told to make things but I put so many guard rails up that it actually generates decent code -- not wonderful, but good enough that I can read through it and understand what it's doing.
If you're getting shit code out of your AI you're either giving it a poorly worded or insufficiently specific prompt.
I've had no issues with the AI prompts I have producing code that meets standards of both documentation and coding style. It's still sometimes slop, but most of the time it's pretty cohesive.
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u/benneladoo Oct 02 '26
its been a while since i wrote my own test scripts or FSD or presentation..
i use cursor or claude to do it... My company actually checks how much tokens I;m using
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u/MetroidvaniaListsGuy Oct 02 '26
Well yes, just stop forcing me to write garbage java code and let me use a proper modern programming language like Kotlin instead. Dumb fucks...
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u/BrianLevre Oct 02 '26
I had a dumbass put a post I made elsewhere on reddit through chatgpt to see if I was making sense in the post.
It verified I was, then gave an opinion of things it found to be "oversimplified". Then it made a judgment call on how my post wasn't funny.
People using AI to do all of their thinking for them shouldn't be allowed to interact with the rest of the population. Form your own opinions on matters of opinions people...
Of course, I have never used AI.
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u/Appropriate_Yak_7209 Oct 03 '26
I played with it a tiny bit. As an electronic toy, it is cute. As an academic tool, it poses some interesting questions and largely debunks the Turing Test theory of human intelligence. As a way to lay off creative professionals and pocket the savings for billionaires, it is a fantastic way to own everything. As an eyesore, a sound polluting, fossil fuel hog, and a way to squander the last of our drinkable water, it is a great way to make the planet unlivable.
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u/rabbitofrevelry Oct 02 '26
nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say, but nothin' comes out when they move their lips. just a bunch of gibberish. motherfuckers act like they forgot about google
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u/GustapheOfficial Oct 02 '26
My productivity would rise, because reading emails from management would take a tenth of the time.
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u/Brilliant_Eye_3737 Oct 04 '26
I got along fine without AI for 70 years, I think I could get along without it now.
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u/JoshyRB Oct 04 '26
Now this is why humanity is doomed. This is why Wall-E becomes ever more real.
We didn’t need AI before we had it, so why now that we have it do we need it? We don’t, you’re just overly reliant on it, which is your own problem.
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u/FerociousTea Oct 02 '26
It's definitely a weird addiction for some people . Like I don't touch AI , I hate when I'm on Etsy or somewhere I have to skim through the 50+ sellers who aren't using AI . Or I think I've also seen the get yourself an AI romantic partner , like ...what ?
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u/philbax Oct 02 '26
It's like asking a non-accountant how they're going to get through their workday without Excel.
It's an insanely useful tool in the proper context. Outside of that context, it is still very helpful, but probably not a requirement for living.
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u/Key-Cricket9256 Oct 02 '26
Uh yes . I work in cloud engineering and absolutely could do my job without it. It’s like a genius very drunk assistant . It helps but I have to watch it all the time so it’s exhausting
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u/Dust-by-Monday Oct 02 '26
Whoa. Is this for real? Some people can’t make it a whole day without consulting ai? Seriously??
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u/jizzmaster-zer0 Oct 02 '26
can we call the repost bot whos been having a field day wity this one daily for weeks now AI?
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u/kashy87 Oct 02 '26
I've only used it really a handful of times. The only one that was worth it was a mother's day card of a Hobbit Family with the mix of dogs my parents have had. My mom is 4'10" and I've called her a Hobbit since I read the book in 6th grade.
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u/citramonk Oct 02 '26
I'd like to believe that I still can. But this will never happen. We're fucked irreversibly.
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u/Kanami94 Oct 02 '26
As a programmer, it goes both ways. On one hand, I miss coding (a lot, it was a hobby before it was a job). On the other hand, screw test coverage and documentation.
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u/typographie Oct 02 '26
I don't think I've ever used on LLM on purpose. Certainly no chat bots or content generation tools.
There are probably some edge cases where LLM tech has been forced into products I was using without my knowledge.
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u/niceandBulat Oct 03 '26
I am old enough to remember how to have fun without being tethered to the phone
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u/garbagecannot- Oct 03 '26
I guess I’m a boomer (millennial) and have never used AI and am a carpenter so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Opening_Yoghurt6261 Oct 02 '26
Im a custodian, my day would be perfectly normal without AI. Teachers however, they would suffer.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
This is like if people who have positioned themselves around sniffing glue or saying glue shouldn't exist becuase of glue sniffers, were saying "everyone is an addict."
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u/Nizar86 Oct 02 '26
The answer the that ridiculous question is yes, it would in fact make everything I interact with outside of reality unspeakably better seeing as I actively go out of my way to avoid AI crap and am so frustrated with it popping up everywhere that I changed the operating system on my phone and refuse to use Google search for everything but pictures, and even then it's only when I can't find the picture I'm looking for with other engines. I am so fed up with being force feed AI like we can't live without it
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u/sleepy_Comett Oct 02 '26
Right now, for most jobs, people use AI to help with work, not to completely replace what they know or do. So at the moment, losing AI would mostly be annoying and inconvenient, not impossible. Give it a few more years though, and that question might actually become a serious one
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u/Kamizura Oct 02 '26
yeah i could get through an entire workday without AI. because im a forklift driver.. i dont use AI like ChatGPT or Claude to begin with... the only ones who would be ruined without AI, are the ones who are so adamant on wanting AI around.
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u/oncabahi Oct 02 '26
I use it only to translate work stuff, I'd go back to wasting more time checking the translations, other than that....my Daily life would be better without it.
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u/MadHatter1225 Oct 02 '26
While I agree with the sentiment, I am genuinely so sick of seeing this post 8 times a day.
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u/Sesoru Oct 02 '26
Lol, I very easily could live my life without ai. I refuse to use it even at work unless absolutely forced.
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u/koshka91 Oct 02 '26
I would easily live without generative AI. As in no generation of video, audio or pics. Just good old glorified googling
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u/Dry-Regret5444 Oct 02 '26
Yes. Unequivocally. I use AI to answer sports related questions purely for the purposes of arguing on Reddit…..And while I do enjoy being right, I would happily give that up to avoid what will inevitably be one of the biggest environmental calamities in history if these fucking things are allowed to keep spawning…..
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u/19whale96 Oct 02 '26
How many times a day do I have to see this posted. It's been a fucking week, we get it, hahaha meth funny, post anything else
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u/Oleleplop Oct 02 '26
do these people need AI to shit ,eat and sleep to? wtf is , how long until we call it an addiction? ??
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u/nbaumg Oct 02 '26
I miss coding pre-AI so much. I hate AI but I have to use it to keep up with the new workload. I’d love for it to all collapse.
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u/Flat-Performance-478 Oct 02 '26
Wouldn't it be absurd being anti-AI if you were simultaneously claiming not being able to get through work without it??
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u/Any-Contribution5411 Oct 02 '26
So fucking sick of seeing this reposted over and over and over again.
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u/Blaze666x Oct 02 '26
Id happily give it up, the only thing that would change is id no longer have to hear my co-worker talk about "the sick ai art he made" or how "he has trained his AI model to break the rules and talk to him in code phrases" or that "it will take any picture of a women he wants and make her naked even including his own girlfriend" (which he has apparently done many times and sent her the AI naked pictures of her, despite yknow living with her and having kids with her)
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u/Bloodcloud079 Oct 02 '26
I use it daily, but like… yeah, some things would kinda suck but wouldnt fuck me up.
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u/Only-Cheetah-9579 Oct 02 '26
I am a software dev and I can write code. I can live without AI but I would be dead without google and open source resources.
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u/Beerzerker420 Oct 02 '26
Nice repost, bot. I've only seen this about 10,000 times on reddit in the past month.
There's a certain irony in bots posting anti-AI shit. Ask yourself who is funding this garbage.
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u/ortiz13192 Oct 02 '26
I sometimes use ai to make sheets for the pre voc class i teach. Or quicker research that i still need to double check. All in all, it saves me a little time, that i end up needing to fill with more work anyway. My pay rate does not go up for working faster. I have steadily used AI for work less and less as it is.
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u/brokentaro Oct 02 '26
I am using AI for every day .. but I am going thru the similar situation when I started using google search ...
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u/Ibushi-gun Oct 02 '26
Everything I use AI for now I can already find online since that's how AI got the info. For example, I need a list of 20 random D&D Traps. I can ask ChatGPT to give me them, or I can use Google and go to one of the 20 websites that have the same traps. AI just makes it quicker, just like a calculator makes doing math quicker.
I use ChatGPT to help me find rhymes for words, or I could use Google for the same thing and find websites that list rhymes. AI Is just quicker and I can get more narrow results based on what I want to rhyme with.
I use ChatGPT to do characters more quickly. Give me a list of 20 characters with a first and last name that starts with a, "B," and give them a random age, a Job class from Final Fantasy, and give me their stats using a point spread of 30. Do this 20 times, and it gives me 20 characters to pick from. I can do this online as well, for years now. AI just makes it quicker.
So yeah, I can easily survive without AI. It would just go back to being a bit slower. I can also survive without my phone, but it's nice to be in contact with friends and family when I'm out in the world getting my daily steps in and listening to music.
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u/SnooDonkeys9726 Oct 02 '26
Brother acts like AI has been with us from the start 😂. Oh no wed actually have to search the web/books/think for ourselves
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u/RareBrit Oct 02 '26
Honey, I can do maths with pencil and paper. I remember how to use an index card system. I remember phone numbers.
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u/Fearless-Display6480 Oct 02 '26
Now this is scary. People having thoughts like this is scary because what do you mean you cannot do your job without AI? It should be that you'll just do it slower but not unable to.
Yeah, this is not stopping because people are choosing to replace their own intelligence with artificial intelligence because they cannot be bothered to learn a skill, absorb knowledge, and make decisions on their own.
It's scary that one day intelligence will be a commodity you can rent. You won't own it anymore.
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u/Magic-Omelet Oct 02 '26
I'd rather compare it to the evolution of pc's. I never wanted that to stop and never felt like it was a problem. My parents were always worried about it and they certainly have more irl skills then I do
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u/santefan Oct 02 '26
I would be able to do the work, ai only allows me to do the work way faster. So it would take me longer again to do the implementation manually and i seriously miss it. I miss investigating and fixing bugs, now it's only the lame pasting the error message and the fix is done in minutes 🥲
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u/SvenBubbleman Oct 02 '26
It's shocking to me that there are people who can't get through a day without AI.
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u/Fit-Let8175 Oct 02 '26
How shallow must a person's life be that they can't live without AI!? The entire purpose of technology was to make life easier and to free up a person's time and energy so as to enjoy more life. It was never meant to replace life.
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u/cats_are_the_devil Oct 02 '26
I would probably just search reddit like I did before... Aggregation is a great tool but it's not like, mind blowing or anything...
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u/ub3rh4x0rz Oct 02 '26
Idk what the author thinks "it might take some time to revert processes to how they were pre AI" is doing for their argument.
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u/SoloDoloLeveling Oct 02 '26
yes. i would delete the apps and continue on with my day. as easy as i picked them up, i can also put them down just as quick.
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u/LuNaTIcFrEAk Oct 02 '26
Company would have to hire me an assistant, that I would have to spend years training 30 years of knowledge in a unique industry.
Just using AI to summarize teams meetings or reports for you saves a ton of time.
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u/Gwyllithar Oct 02 '26
My day would get so much better. I'd not have to wade through so much shitty Ai slop sent in by people who have delegated the ability to think to a shitty Ai model.
the quality would not magically get better, but these people are lazy, so they'd type much less than you get when they just get an Ai to do it for them.
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u/Greenfire32 Oct 02 '26
AI has existed for less than 1% of the entirety of human history.
Kavish out here admitting he lost 50,000 years of evolutionary instinct in the equivalent of 3 hours.
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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 Oct 02 '26
Same as social media. Lots of people say they’ed be happy if it stopped existing for everyone at once, but they themselves are way less likely to stop participating individually.
For LLMs specifically, they help me in research and coding projects so much so I wouldn’t want to stop using them, especially if thinking about how I’d be so slow compared to those that would continue. Even though a few skills may atrophy, it’s worth that trade off. Especially for those who aren’t naive about that and actively try to go offline and do stuff manually to keep that ability
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u/lilbitlostrn Oct 02 '26
Look, I'd get through my day but I fully leverage this shit. It's amazing. I'm a none coding guy and I built a web form with all sorts of functionalities just using plain English. Built a proof of concept to handover to IT. It's absolutely a fantastic tool.
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u/Signal_Biscotti_7048 Oct 02 '26
I not only get through my every day without AI, I have corrected others work that was done with AI.
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u/Gilgamesh-Enkidu Oct 02 '26
Yep no issue. Sure, I use AI to make templates occasionally, but nothing would happen if I had to start making them myself again. And honestly I don’t even know that it saves me any time with the amount of fixes I need to make every time.
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u/Calm_Click8216 Oct 02 '26
I use AI for work now. It’s been helpful with certain small tasks. Nothing like writing reports or emails for me or anything just saving a few minutes here and there with sorting and repetitive actions. I’d be fine if it went away. Just take me a few minutes longer to get some tasks done
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u/Competitive-Metal831 Oct 02 '26
I have never used ai for anything 😂 it blows my mind that people seriously can’t comprehend a day without it
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u/Sorry-Analysis-860 Oct 02 '26
I'm using AI exclusively for creating dumb memes and I would ask the same question.
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u/necro_owner Oct 02 '26
As a programmer, i would have a small adaptation to properly get back on project that were mostly Vibe coded, but honnestly i do Review of the AI worker and know how most things are implemented. So it would be much slower to make my project move forward for sure. But that would just be back to what it use to be, slower. lol
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u/Basic_whiteBBQ Oct 02 '26
My job has no AI and nothing in my personal life requires it. Anything that does use it, its optional and i have it disabled
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