[gtsop]

You are almost right. As I say since the beginning of this ai circus, this is the equivalent of flipping mcdonalds burgers (no insult intended for those workers). It is a thing, and people buy and eat them. But high quality burgers made by talented chefs will always be out there. That's my analogy, and i dont intend to be on the side of flipping mcdonalds burgers

[rhubarbtree]

There are a lot of McDonalds and very few Michelin starred restaurants.

Safety critical engineering and infrastructure layers will (eventually again) be rigorous. Everything else is headed to slop.

My craft died. I’m sad. Time to move on.

[kakacik]

Where I live, gourmet high quality burger joints definitely, and massively overwhelm McDonalds in number (Geneva, Switzerland). Even if I count in burger king. Shows that sometimes people pay for the quality even if they don't desperately need it. And its trivial to make better burgers than mcd, heck I can surpass them trivially at home with every ingredient, they are really the lowest level of quality, taste, looks, or (lack of) healthy components. You don't need Michelin * for that, far from it. Plus food is often cold outside of peak hours, something that never happened to me in proper restaurant.

Also, mcd ain't at the end much cheaper, just marginally, the choice of drinks is pathetic, usually no beer. The main reason folks go there because its easier/faster than getting table in real restaurant. But also the environment in mcd is absolute soulless cheap fugly shit. (there are kids corners to be fair, but they are often disgustingly dirty).

Its a very good analogy at the end IMHO, maybe just not tilting the way you intended, at least not here.

[rhubarbtree]

Haha well not my analogy, analogy is not a good way to reason, but Geneva in this situation is exactly the exception that proves the rule. Thanks for emphasising my point.

[ajross]

> i dont intend to be on the side of flipping mcdonalds burgers

So say the kitchen staff at every Denny's too. And yet...

The analogy is apt, but your coping strategy falls down because of numbers. There aren't a lot of spots for those "chefs" to get paid like they expect.

Most HN commenters might have gotten by over the past decades thinking they were "talented chefs", but were really more like the "short order cooks" whose jobs got eaten by fast food.

[rsynnott]

It’s really not. McDonald’s’ whole thing is consistency. It’s never going to be good, but not is it going to be that terrible.

That is, ah, very much not the case for AI slop.

[nottorp]

> high quality burgers

There is also, you know, actual food. Done by real chefs.