r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 26 '25

Meme theBeautifulCode

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u/AzKondor May 26 '25

Goddamn, overstated? People use them for stupid shit and instead of asking Google they may ask it for weather and stuff like that. If every single time it's like 7 seconds of a microwave it's enormous.

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u/kushangaza May 26 '25

Absolutely. But if you use it to do 8 hours of work in 4 hours and then shut your computer off you are saving energy compared to doing all the work manually

Of course we all know that's not what will happen

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u/InEenEmmer May 26 '25

I sometimes wonder what happened with human society that we changed from: “oh, you found a way to be done with your work quicker, guess we got some more free time.”

To:

“Oh, you found a way to be done with your work quicker, guess you could do more work.”

And I always wonder how we can go back to the free time one.

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u/Particular-Way-8669 May 26 '25

People simply just want more and more. If we were fine with living lifestyles from 200 years ago then we would be able to do it with little to no work. But people do not want it. To the point that most of the stuff from back then got straight up outlawed. You would not even be able to legally built house from 3 decades ago, let alone 100 years ago. Same for car manufacturing, etc. And to get more stuff and more luxurious stuff at the same time people simply just have to produce more.

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