The issue with recent AI tech is that _I can't learn it_. I have to pay a lot of money (GPU renting or buying outrageous rigs) if I want to do even hello world AI stuff. The writing is on the wall, I will never be allowed to learn it, just to use it like a peasant.
This simply wasn't true before. I can read react code, roll my own, understand it. Same with any tech after the 90s. Heck, I can even do a primitive browser without having to buy GPU.
But AI is different. It will not allow you to learn past a certain point, and there is nothing you can do. And it's not about how smart or dedicated you are anymore. It's about money. Either you have huge datacenter money and you learn, or you don't and just play kids prompt guinea pig. It sucks.
SoftTalker•8mo ago
icanread•8mo ago
SoftTalker•8mo ago
Edit: Actually two things killed bookstores. In the 1990s the megabookstores (e.g. Borders, Barnes and Noble) with coffee shops and living rooms for people to hang out in blew up and put a lot of the independent bookstores out of business. Then the internet blew up and Amazon put Borders and Barnes and Noble out of business.
Some independents have returned here and there, or managed to hang on through it all, but it's a shadow of what used to exist in most places.