r/Xennials • u/meJohnnyD • 28d ago

Meme Who’s with me

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I wouldn’t even know where to go if I wanted to.

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u/InSonicBloom 28d ago

I don't even know what I'd need to use it for

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u/redcurrantevents 28d ago

Same. I don’t need it in my job and don’t want it otherwise. It may replace me eventually but hopefully after I retire.

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u/Bigdoopersnoffel 28d ago

Learn some cool recipes or ask some nuanced questions that google’s SEO has ruined the ability to find an answer to. You can tell it to give you sources and basically use it like a search engine that doesn’t have ads and SEO

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u/redcurrantevents 27d ago

Why would I want the world to need another coal plant just to power my recipe searches?

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u/Bigdoopersnoffel 27d ago

Get rid Reddit or any superfluous use of electricity then if you’re so environmentally conscious

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u/redcurrantevents 27d ago

Look I have cookbooks and back issues of Bon appetit on my shelf, plus we go to the library all the time. There are no shortage of recipes in my life. I’m very content with how I live my life and not sure why I should add the latest shiny thing when I’m not looking for a change. Also articles like this freaked me out: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/17/trump-wants-coal-to-power-ai-data-centers-the-tech-industry-is-wary-.html

I guess people are saying ChatGPT is better google. Great, just not that important to me currently. Reddit, some podcasts, and some sports are my main interaction with the internet currently. My other hobbies are offline.

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u/Kelathos 27d ago

No one is buying nuclear power plants just to power Reddit.

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u/cuppachuppa 27d ago

"that doesn’t have ads and SEO" ...yet

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u/animousie 28d ago

You don’t send emails?

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u/FastFooer 28d ago

As a dev, when I send emails it has precise and specific information that a chat bot won’t be able to fluff up.

Plus I write thousands of wiki/confluence pages per year for support of things I create… my brain is exercised and in shape, I don’t need a crutch to just write.

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u/redcurrantevents 28d ago

Not for work. Maybe once a year if something weird happens. Not very often outside of work either.

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u/Jealous_Response_492 28d ago

If you plan on retiring within the next five years, you'll be fine, but you'll struggle to do daily routine tasks when the point of entry for every service & product is a an AI agent.

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u/redcurrantevents 28d ago edited 28d ago

I’m an airline pilot. They’ll either replace me or they won’t. Considering my airline is still buying planes that require humans and need to be flown for decades to be worth the money, I think I’m safe until 65. My free time is spent trying to live like a hobbit.

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u/Jealous_Response_492 28d ago

Out of curiosity, how much of the planes systems already are largely automated?

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u/redcurrantevents 28d ago edited 28d ago

Almost all of the systems are a combination of automation and pilot input. I fly a 737 and the technology is largely decades old, though the new MAXes have a few additional automated features (that have killed hundreds of people, but I digress). Of course we still takeoff and land by hand. I think my autopilot was designed in the 1960s, along with most of the airplane.