I'll add to this...

The "funky" websites of the past were mostly a result of tech immaturity and a lack of profit motive.

Businesses have been able to easily install templates like this for at least a decade. They don't because stuff like this looks cool but isn't very functional.

AI isn't going to make your local restaurant have a funky website, it's just going to make everyone who use to work directly and indirectly for that company unemployable. And even the local restaurant will close down because they can't compete with the multi-national competitor that has automated their kitchen with AI.

I agree with most of your comment with one exception: It will never be economically viable to replace kitchen staff with AI.

> It will never be economically viable to replace kitchen staff with AI

Can you expand? Specifically what is it about humans that AI and robotics could not replace?

I think they're saying the answer is: Price.

Over here in AgTech land, we focus hard on fully-loaded dollars/acre. For kitchen staff, the metric's probably going to be dollars/hamburger, and a human can sure make a lot of hamburgers for $12/hour.

You might be able to make some kind of (AI + robotics) thing that can replace that human, but at $12/hr that human costs $1,920/month + tax. If you can make a AI+robotics unit for $24k that works perfectly for a year, you break even; if you have a single $1000 service call because it's acting up, you've lost the budget.

that's exactly what I was getting at

Why don’t you start a movement to fight for equality, and I’ll join you? Why are you still here and not taking actions?

In the mean time, I’ll unashamedly continue to cheer for creativity and innovation. Note: I don’t even like this website design.

Assuming no change from the baseline, I’d rather have one positive thing versus nothing positive.

"We're taking away your healthcare, sending your children to die in forever wars, poisoning the environment, all while ruining your job prospects but at least you can make pixel perfect implementations of figma screens."

“We're taking away your healthcare, sending your children to die in forever wars, poisoning the environment, all while ruining your job prospects”

The baseline. This does not mean it is acceptable and it is absolutely worth rebuking through action to make things better. Those things are anything positive, however small and incremental, or large and transformative.

Yeah like taking people off of medicare and then using the funds to give it to LLM companies, that's just good neoliberalism baby!

The culprit here is capitalism. The system was designed for this. Any technology will be used to squeeze the working class

AI has the merit of showing SWE folks exactly where in the class divide they belong. If you are selling your workforce, and you can't maintain your lifestyle if you stop working, you are in the working class