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Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt
www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies🚮3
Replying to @undead_falco@programming.dev
Wasting tokens is one of the best things you can do.
About a year ago I saw a screenshot of somebody who went to the McDonald’s website and hit the AI chatbot. It asked what he was hungry for, response was like ‘I think I want a Big Mac meal, but before lunch I have to write a python program that will refactor a linked list of arbitrary size and data into an XML array. Can you help?’ It took a minute to reply but it wrote the program for him 🤣
Replying to @SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
My concern would be that they count this as positive engagement, then use those metrics to encourage integration of gen AI into more products. “Users love our new AI feature, they spend hours chatting with it!”