[jrflowers]

> The exercise cost $0.38 in credits and about 20 seconds

I am intrigued by a future where I can burn seventy dollars per hour watching my cursor click buttons on the computer that I own

[bastawhiz]

Amazingly my employer continues to pay me hundreds of dollars an hour to search Kagi and type on a computer they paid for and own!

[jrflowers]

And to think they could be paying you to supervise the buttons clicking themselves instead! The past where the lack of a human meant a lack of input is over, all hail the future where a lack of a human could mean wasteful and counterproductive input instead

[bastawhiz]

What I'm hearing is that now they can fire my manager

[tylerchilds]

i think you’d get fired and your boss will be demoted to your position.

[ionwake]

a smart take

[urbandw311er]

You wouldn’t sit there watching your paid human assistant work would you? So why would you sit watching your paid AI assistant?

I think the general idea is that you’re off doing something more productive, more relaxing or more profitable!

[jrflowers]

> why would you sit watching your paid AI assistant?

> it kept the wrong date and declared itself successful

[urbandw311er]

This is the worst it’s ever going to be, though. Probably a better use of time to make plans and preparations based on its fifth iteration or similar.

[jrflowers]

I like the idea of seeing an app that charges me electrician rates to move my cursor around to book me on the wrong flight and thinking “I should plan for the day that I wake up and simply have to mumble ‘do job’ in the general direction of a device”

[nkrisc]

A human assistant would have been fired already.

[tylerchilds]

i don’t think anyone is going to fire anyone willing to work for 38 cents for any reason.

[jrflowers]

Seventy dollars per hour equates to paying a full time employee roughly $145k per year

[urbandw311er]

We can probably assume this will come down by at least an order of magnitude.

[sourcepluck]

I see you missed yesterday, when Tog's Paradox was discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913437

[urbandw311er]

I did - thanks for the link!

[bigs]

Imagine the finger wear and tear you’ll avoid though.