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The Rise of Whatever

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627 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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Almondsetat ◴[04 Jul 25 09:11 UTC] No.44462719[source]▶
The author claims that computers aren't fun anymore and then talks about payment methods and social networks. Not only I fail to see how a website would magically make a piece of hardwars boring, but computers have always been boring and it is the job of the user to get something fun out of them
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1. gwd ◴[04 Jul 25 10:25 UTC] No.44463190[source]▶
Er, they all seem pretty connected:

1. Computers could be more fun if you could buy things more easily. Crypto could solve that, but the people involved don't care about crypto, they care about Whatever.

2. Computers can be fun when people do cool things on them. The web could make that possible, but unfortunately the economics of ads incentivize people to post Whatever.

3. Programming can be fun, but LLMs just generate Whatever.