I knew that UI had something to hide!

Never trust an overly fancy UI…

I’m responding to the premise of the thread. I agree it doesn’t make sense to characterise people based on age brackets, however I am noting a pattern I’ve observed in reality, not speculating a fictional scenario. It’s also true my view is anecdotal, backed up by memes and other anecdotes and not by science or extensive research.

However I’d like to point out that we are in a group called “memes” and the thread is about “used to consume not produce”, the OP’s meme image is specifically talking about the pattern where younger people don’t understand fundamentals of tech and just consume it. As an IT professional of nearly 20 years I have observed the same phenomenon and so I wrote a funny reply based on that.

You’re right IT probably won’t entirely evaporate that’s crazy. As crazy as picking apart a funny comment to wag your finger at a well meaning stranger.

It’s gonna be really funny when all us millenials die and the tech infrastructure evaporates.

What age do we think they’ll be set back to? Pre industrial? Bronze?

My prediction seems extreme but don’t forget that while books continue to exist, the average adult born after 2000 would rather die than read one.

Why is LinkedIn not on there? Or does that count as an auto immune disease?

I heard the new 2025 model wallops you in the bollocks every time you pull the parking brake.

What you have here is a Moogle from the Final Fantasy franchise…

What a nicely timed distraction from issues like housing, cost of living and health.

Albo was definitely always going to pass these laws even if Zionist gangs hadn’t staged the attacks across Australia to create the headlines that triggered these laws.

Definitely wouldn’t happen here in Oz!

It’s all about the nuances… baby boomers as a cohort are responsible for many of today’s problems and yet individual boomers are not. The elderly get roped into the defence of boomers even though there’s plenty of older people than them that actually helped setup the prosperity that boomers ruined.

Karens are frustrating and their voices are loud, but to even compare them to predator class humans like billionaires or rapists is waay out of touch.

Public companies aren’t capable of innovation, only acquisition.

Good question! Leonardo DaVinci was born in the 16th century and he came up with flying machines too. It’s a very different problem to have a key person, or five, who have vital engineering and design knowledge versus the numbers needed to uphold an industry. I was more talking about the latter.

You might produce a few geniuses to write your whitepapers - but you need scores of them to manufacture vehicles, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. I’ve updated my original comment with an asterisk alluding to this point.

Donald Trump’s Gilead is not going to inspire a lot of people to become a software engineer in a time when we’re celebrating AI replacing jobs. Trump and MAGAs vision will not drive the world to do business with America - it will drive investors and new customers away, shrinking the US tech industry and eroding American dominance.

I find it really funny the US are trying to maintain their global position as tech leader while in the midst of a fascist take over. You know what’s incompatible with a thriving tech industry? Fascism. You can survive a little while after a take over, but eventually your rigorous little Christian commune of a society isn’t going to produce enough* engineers, scientists or anyone with a taste level worth a damn.

It’s really demoralising scraping by as an IT person in a western democracy, and then realising the outsource contractors your company hired for cheaper have a much better life than you. Simply because their earnings hold up better with the cost of living where they are.

Yeah and they grew up in a mansion in Argentina, or Cape Town, for “the climate”…

“There’s no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!” - Ethel Merman

Entirely possible, but I didn’t want to assume! My dad didn’t know the Village People were gay and he was a grown adult with kids when people broke the news to him…

Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.

Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s… Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!

The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself… not so much!

There was a legitimate use case in art to draw on generative AI for concepts and a stopgap for smaller tasks that don’t need to be perfect. While art is art, not every designer out there is putting work out for a gallery - sometimes it’s just an ad for a burger.

However, as time has gone on for the industry to react I think that the business reality of generative AI currently puts it out of reach as a useful tool for artists. Profit hungry people in charge will always look to cut corners and will lack the nuance of context that a worker would have when deciding when or not to use AI in the work.

But you could provide this argument about any tool given how fucked up capitalism is. So I guess that my 2c - generative AI is a promising tool but capitalism prevents it from being truly useful anytime soon.

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nothing but a fascist propaganda outlet at this point

Hey that’s not true! There’s also a lot of scammers.

I’m hoping community efforts are able to fill the void. I fear having to do this all myself and becoming some kind of Mad Max style tinkerer after the fall…

Old phones daisy changed together to act as a server… The remnants of StarLink for internet, getting nazi/rape threats from the remaining social media AI that live in all the satellites…

It would be nice if government backed up Wikipedia and SO. But considering they don’t give a shit about Linux which is arguably one of the most vital technical infrastructure projects of our lifetime…