The story made me think of my Google Nest subscription rising from AUD12 month to AUD15 per month. 25% increase.
Of course Google has shoe-horned blue into it as well.
pempem · 2h ago
Honestly a quick, enjoyable and fully reflective of the moment read.
The most important part, the part that not enough people are talking about is
"The price of my (blue) milk went up. They blamed it on inflation, on innovations they've made in bottlecap technology. The blue milk now comes in a very fancy new (and very blue) package. But I knew the truth. The company that made blue food coloring had made it almost completely flavorless, and once all the food distributors got used to including it, the price had skyrocketed."
laborcontract · 2h ago
very poignant story about the inescapability of smart tvs
mystraline · 2h ago
I assume this is some AI allegory of it crammed in everywhere?
Pretty poor story, not to just say it outright what they're really trying to say.
noduerme · 2h ago
I took it to be about plastics.
Maybe the fact that different people can take different meanings from it makes it a better story than if they just said it was about one specific thing.
bravesoul2 · 2h ago
The last line the A and the I are blue.
I was half hoping it was about SaaS subscriptions. Or ads. Or the Smurfs.
llbbdd · 2h ago
Yeah the A and I in the last line are highlighted to hammer it home. I'm not sure where this ire comes from, I'm annoyed at seeing dumb AI gimmick features pushed everywhere too, but it has uses and doesn't seem to warrant the weird moral high ground people seem to take about it. This post too repeats the "burning down a forest" line that continues to be silly and the people who repeat it don't seem to care that it's false.
Rotundo · 1h ago
We were a blockchain-first company! And now we are AI-first! Please think we are still a relevant company! Please invest in us! Give us money!
It's a bit transparent, is it not?
llbbdd · 1h ago
Only on HN. In my actual life some of the tools I use have added the (yes, annoying) "Try our AI!" buttons but I haven't been anywhere near driven to blog about it. Sometimes it's even useful (Google Drive has handled this pretty well I think). But blog posts like this have a kind of "Think of the children!" vibe that I haven't fully understood yet.
Of course Google has shoe-horned blue into it as well.
The most important part, the part that not enough people are talking about is
"The price of my (blue) milk went up. They blamed it on inflation, on innovations they've made in bottlecap technology. The blue milk now comes in a very fancy new (and very blue) package. But I knew the truth. The company that made blue food coloring had made it almost completely flavorless, and once all the food distributors got used to including it, the price had skyrocketed."
Pretty poor story, not to just say it outright what they're really trying to say.
Maybe the fact that different people can take different meanings from it makes it a better story than if they just said it was about one specific thing.
I was half hoping it was about SaaS subscriptions. Or ads. Or the Smurfs.
It's a bit transparent, is it not?