Rant against $500/month AI plans: "You produce slop, wake up"
gnukeith · x · 2026-09-30
gnukeith's viral rant targets AI subscription FOMO: you don't need the $500/month plan (your employer would pay if you did), and chasing slop benchmarks for likes, outsourcing all thinking to agents, and burning $20k on subscriptions in 3 months — instead of running models locally for a fraction of the cost — is a wake-up-call moment for the AI hype bubble.
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