Indeed we're about 5.minures.away from college students gluing their hands to construction equipment

Author: iairishcheeks (29736 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 2:46 am on Jun 1, 2026

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..building data centers. Because they want to spend 1/3rd or more of their adult life waking hours drowning over excel spreadsheets.

There are problems, but the problems are human problems, not AI problems.

Replies to: “Indeed we're about 5.minures.away from college students gluing their hands to construction equipment”

Curious: Do you use AI? How/Why? And open-ended, what has been your experience? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 11:49pm 5/31/26 (20) [View All]
- Every day, for both personal and business uses - Nigel Tufnel - 2:53am 6/1/26
  - I don't know anyone that is using Perplexity. - iairishcheeks - 2:58am 6/1/26
- Google insists it show me their AI, it saves me a click half the time - holybull101 - 2:34am 6/1/26
- Are you talking GPT/Gemini? All the time. Those are small parts of AI, though. - MAS - 1:43am 6/1/26
  - Indeed we're about 5.minures.away from college students gluing their hands to construction equipment - iairishcheeks - 2:46am 6/1/26
    - Those jobs of college-graduated drone reading spreadsheets are numbered. [NT] - MAS - 2:48am 6/1/26
      - Listen, we need to first stop AI. And then we need immigrants to do our spreadsheet work [NT] - iairishcheeks - 2:51am 6/1/26
- Some. Helped my daughter create her new resume with it and it worked great. - TampaIrish - 12:55am 6/1/26
- Claude and it is a game changer - 86domer - 12:24am 6/1/26
  - My concern is that we will stop thinking for ourselves. - conorlarkin - 12:52am 6/1/26
    - Yeah, when I conjure up an image of "independent thinker," I think of conor. [NT] - MAS - 1:36am 6/1/26
      - You mean CNN, MSNBC, Wapo and NY Times are not AI? [NT] - TampaIrish - 1:57am 6/1/26
        
        All would be drastically improved if the robot was assigned the task of investigating the world - MAS - 2:24am 6/1/26
    - That's the "calculator" argument of old. - iairishcheeks - 1:29am 6/1/26
  - What type of work? - iairishcheeks - 12:33am 6/1/26
    - Me, business unit strategy for a boutique consultancy - 86domer - 12:41am 6/1/26
      - "Boutique Consultancy", I love that term and it also resonates with what I do. - iairishcheeks - 12:47am 6/1/26
- Other than what pops up in a Google search, no. - conorlarkin - 12:10am 6/1/26
  - I would suggest you do a bit more with it. [LINK] - iairishcheeks - 12:29am 6/1/26
  - It will be interesting to see what areas the tools have greatest utility - 86domer - 12:25am 6/1/26

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