I'd hope not. The math is simple and the concepts are simple. Even if you could trust the LLM to give the right advice or calculations, which you can't, there's the opportunity cost of developing those skills yourself. Would you rather have those primary and fundamental skills for the rest of your life or the more secondary skills that are proprietary to the moment and contemporary tools and models? There's an important difference between self sufficience and dependence.

I'm thinking more of the work to enter all the data, read receipts, check and classify bank transactions, etc.

Then it wouldn't be effective advertising/vanity blogging from some self-promoting startup.

I wish you could always go straight to the publisher, I don't want an extra middleman in the transaction. GOG is fine because after the transaction you can download the install media and they're out of the mix, but the Steam/Epic model is terrible, it needlessly turns an open platform into a closed one.

Agreed. I know Steam has done some good things for the industry, and people love them for it, but they are also single handedly responsible for turning PC gaming from "buy and own forever" to a revocable license model. GOG is probably the last place remaining where you can actually buy games.

Haven't a bunch of people fallen in love with ChatGPT? There's a whole Reddit called myboyfriendisai

(Probably mentally unhealthy people, but still it happens!)

If you don't want to use an adblocker that's your choice, but it doesn't make complaining about it content that we want to read.

Consider that "successful" has evolved from innovating products that make our lives better to a strong focus on ad tech, surveillance, social media, and slop.

Google is in the business of selling slop creation tools. They want you to consume it, they don't want to provide ways to filter it out.

I assume the end game is youtube will eventually almost entirely be their own slop

at which point they won't have to pay pesky creators

Just like they said they were leaving New York after Mamdani won? Do we really have to entertain these as something serious?

Is Mamdani proposing a "one time" tax of 5% of all of a person's wealth or anything remotely similar? If not, I don't think it is reasonable to compare the two situations.

It wont be "one time", which is why they are leaving.

I'm not watching but I've been seeing comments all day in the game threads about what a bad production it is, picture quality aside. Cringe pre-game shows and ads.

The NFL in general is a terrible product that has absolutely zero redeeming qualities.

Merit is one of those things that helps in the long run but can't be guaranteed to help at any one specific time. So you need to trust it even when it seems unhelpful.

But on the other hand, software dev seems to be racing in the direction of replacing developers with fungible AI operators. It's too soon to tell how it will end, but whatever labor can replaced or reduced will be. A long-standing equilibrium of labor is gone.