All other problems aside, this is what I hate the most (at this particular moment)

It's no secret to anyone who reads it that Aftermath is not a pro-AI site (and why would anyone who covers video games be pro-AI?). I think they've now written two articles that sum things up for me quite well.

First, as a tech hobbyist who slaps Linux distros on random machines, runs a server for media and utility software, and records music on whatever hardware I can, the jackasses making computers expensive are the devil incarnate. They don't even like computers. They didn't type games into their Commodore from magazines. But they're more than happy to make Jensen Huang mega-rich at the expense of us nerds.

Secondly, as a so-called "knowledge worker," I greatly resent the idea that a glorified autocomplete can do my job. The work is the work. I get automation — my employer is giving a lot of benefits to workers based on our ability to "work smarter, not harder." But that just plain does not involve GenAI in any case that matters. Writing emails, parsing results, providing my interpretation of data, even building fucking Figma files. These things horrify me, because nothing original or insightful is going to come out of the stochastic word generator, and because that is the work. If you're already lucky enough to not be breaking your back or serving retail customers or whatever at work every day, offloading your responsibilities to the machine is just shirking the things you do have to do.