[icameron]

Enjoyed reading the crude observation that we eat cat turds for work. I like the author who watches the graffiti on the train ride rather than a phone screen. Was the “Spirograph butthole”meant to be a reference to a React app default favicon?

[int_19h]

The "spirograph" is the ChatGPT logo. The "butthole" is Anthropic Claude, I think. The "color blob" is probably Gemini?

[WorldPeas]

given the age of the other person from the description, it's likely MS copilot

[xnx]

> “Spirograph butthole”

Sounds like the Open AI logo

[onionisafruit]

It isn't a spirograph, but to me the most butthole-looking AI logo is Claude's throbbing asterisk.

[stavros]

There were two in the text, one spirograph (ChatGPT), one butthole (Claude).

[onionisafruit]

Gotcha. I misinterpreted that, and I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who sees that as a butthole.

[chanux]

AI apps I believe.

[xcrjm]

Yeah it sounds more like a reference to the OpenAI logo to me

[xandrius]

Honestly, if we're speaking of most graffiti (generally just tags in the same boring fashion) visible from a train, I'd rather to be looking at a phone screen.

At least the phone screen could be displaying something interesting but most graffitis are pseudo-artistic "I was here" tags. I wish more of that paint was used to actually make a place nicer rather than worse. And don't get me wrong, I'm totally ok with guerilla, technically illegal actions taken by citizens to improve their surroundings but most graffiti are far from that.

[WorldPeas]

The graffiti on the MTA from CT to NY is pretty nice, a lot of puffy colored tags, I think it's best not to have too many tags, keeps the good ones front-of-mind. Don't get me wrong, the less-is-more ones are nice too, VEO, anyone?