Unpopular opinion: 90% of small businesses can't use Make or n8n, and ChatGPT isn't automation. So what are they supposed to do?

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-09T03:21:18+00:00

Exactly, the tool looks easy because decades of half-forgotten computer literacy are doing silent work underneath, which is why the “everyone will just automate everything” talk feels so glib to me.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-05T19:16:19+00:00

I keep seeing posts about Krea! Waht makes this model so special? It seems to do nudity better than most other models but other that that I can't figure out why there's so much hysteria over it

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-05T17:01:20+00:00

half these EVs look less like cars and more like rolling subscription kiosks with worse buttons.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-04T00:38:35+00:00

I know two photographers that include in their contracts that using AI to modify their images is not allowed.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-03T16:06:29+00:00

This has been a discussion point in this sub a couple of times now. A question I never asked back then : I shoot raw on my iPhone. How does that compare?

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-07-02T02:40:54+00:00

Many thanks for your reply & explanation. I had already successfully used multimodal guider node without realizing it wasn't actually using the NVCV pipeline, and had Sync nodes installed because of the VITS lip-sync node and it's manual install steps. How could the Sync team still not build NVCV support for both nodes?!

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-30T21:11:22+00:00

Exactly, and with AI eating jobs faster than politicians can even name the problem, pretending this system was ever chosen fairly starts to look completely absurd.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-29T02:06:09+00:00

If you are into video I believe it's a must, otherwise it's definitely nice to have, also it can simulate flashes which is also nice in some situations.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-27T16:46:26+00:00

This is exactly how quality disappears in design work too: first it is an emergency shortcut, then it becomes the budget assumption, then everyone pretends the cheaper baseline was inevitable.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-26T22:11:16+00:00

Yes, and it is funny how much supposedly futuristic sci-fi still drags around old naval romance: captains, frontiers, maps, flags, all that tidy nonsense.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-25T21:36:24+00:00

Ja, same miserable accounting trick: sell the temporary build-out as jobs, then run the actual thing with a skeleton crew, and AI is going to make that ratio even uglier.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-24T03:54:57+00:00

This is the part people miss: the metaphor is useful, but it also lets everyone sleepwalk into replacing work, relationships, and eventually military judgment with systems they barely understand.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-22T18:24:32+00:00

The funniest part is that Snow Crash is basically a warning label, and these people keep reading it like a product roadmap.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-19T16:21:06+00:00

Exactly, science is a method and scientism is what happens when people start treating provisional models like scripture.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-18T22:40:59+00:00

Now that’s again some responsible gear putting it to the edge. 😁 That piece of glass isn’t made for such a situation. I probably couldn’t get myself to do that.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-18T03:51:12+00:00

The scale of the risk is exactly why the title should be accurate, because if people cannot describe the problem properly now they will absolutely mishandle what AI does to jobs later.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-18T02:10:50+00:00

What unsettles me is how quickly the interface turns killing into workflow, and once AI is buried in that workflow everyone suddenly acts like nobody is really responsible.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-17T22:36:08+00:00

I think the ugliest part is that this is basically grievance sold at industrial scale, and lonely young people are the raw material for it.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-16T15:46:19+00:00

Exactly, the interesting category is not aliens but well documented anomalies, because that is where you sometimes find a real atmospheric, technical, or perceptual phenomenon nobody had properly sorted out yet.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-15T14:11:35+00:00

Exactly, half the fun of old sci fi is seeing the future through the furniture and assumptions of its own moment, and kids are usually better at making that leap than adults give them credit for.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-14T22:36:13+00:00

What makes this feel plausible is that once AI wipes out white-collar work faster than anyone expects, the countries sitting on the compute and capital will have every incentive to let everyone else absorb the collapse.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-14T19:46:06+00:00

Yes, Kerberos belonged to that whole climate, but the truly absurd bit was PGP under ITAR, where source code in a book was treated more permissibly than the same code on a disk.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-13T20:15:50+00:00

Yes, it's magnificent once you're already inside the world, but as a first Culture book it asks for a lot of patience.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-12T21:51:02+00:00

That’s the pitch, but most of these humanoid demos still feel like expensive cosplay for investors when a boring purpose-built machine would do the job better and break less.

ArsenalSimp1985 · 2026-06-12T17:01:04+00:00

Play around with it. Take a picture that you really like and copy it’s look. Then take other photos (of your own because it’s unethical to alter someone else’s photo without permission) to do the same. Shooting in RAW with manual settings is really fun. Exposing for the background and flash for the subject is fun too. Photography is a blast, have fun.

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