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Comment by sdcfgy | original | No AI Fridays
[−]sdcfgy · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:21 UTC · link
Got no AI 7 days here. I sold my token budget to other staff and spent the money on beer.
[−]scrollaway · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:46 UTC · link
I guess alcoholism is cooler than using AI to do things nowadays, is that your stance?
[−]valleyer · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:56 UTC · link
One of the strawiest strawmen I've seen in quite some time.
[−]sdcfgy · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:59 UTC · link
Looking at some of the shit I have to deal with, yes it is.

TODO: insert something about open source, beer, free beer, someone else's beer, trading beer, subgenius, slack etc etc

[−]qmmmur · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:14 UTC · link
It absolutely is
[−]sensanaty · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:24 UTC · link
Literally everything and anything on the planet is cooler than AI, yes
[−]misiti3780 · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:42 UTC · link
so if you drink beer, you're automatically an alcoholic - I bet you're fun to hang out with
[−]wonnage · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:52 UTC · link
AI is somewhere down there with Covid and Ubisoft, I’m gonna go with yes
[−]DarmokTanagra · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:10 UTC · link
I just cleaned my cats litter box and that was cooler than AI.

I have no idea how people can spend 40 hours a week interacting with those sycophantic random number generators, its like having the most annoying linkedin influencer you can imagine DM'ing you all day.