Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by SoftTalker on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:35AM (#46393598)

When the self checkout machine gets confused, as it frequently does, and needs a human to intervene, you get a little bit of connection there. You can both gripe about how stupid the machines are.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by layer8 on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:59AM (#46393848)

So, the benefit of GenAI is that it creates human connection by everyone collectively bitching about it?

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by joquarky on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:55PM (#46395019)

I've observed on many occasions that complaining seems to be the primary go-to ad-hoc subject in spontaneous human interactions in the past decade.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by layer8 on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:03PM (#46395103)

I mean, there is a lot to complain about.

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