> My pet peeve with AI is that it just accelerates whatever has already been automated or can be automated easily ....

> I’m just a frustrated old man I guess.

I think this is a great summary of the failure of vision that a lot of tech people are having right now.

> automate anything that already has an endpoint or whatever

Facebook used to have API's, Reddit used to have API's, amazon used to have API's

They are gone.

Enshitification and dark patterns have taken over.

"Hey open claw, cancel service xxx" where XXX is something that is 17 steps and purposely hard to cancel so they keep your money.

What's going to happen when your AI tool can go to a website and strip the ad's off and return you just the text? What happens when it can build a customized news feed that looks less like Facebook and more like HN? Aren't we just gaining back function we lost with the death of RSS?

Consumers are mad about the hype of AI but the moment that it can cut through the bullshit we keep putting in their way it's going to wreck business MODELS, and the choice will be adapt or die. Start asking your "AI" tools to do all the basic, tedious bullshit tasks that are low risk (you have a ton of them) and if it gets 1/4 of them done your going to free up a ton of your own time.