AI Makes Me Sad
AI Makes Me Sad October 2nd, 2026 Am I allowed to say that? Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness. And I'm saying this as someone who is absolutely in a position to benefit from AI.
- ▪AI Makes Me Sad October 2nd, 2026 Am I allowed to say that?
- ▪Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of
- ▪And I'm saying this as someone who is absolutely in a position to benefit from AI.
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| Original publisher | Mondobe |
| Canonical URL | https://mondobe.com/ai-makes-me-sad |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:18:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T16:25:50.375Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T16:25:50.375Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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AI Makes Me Sad October 2nd, 2026 Am I allowed to say that? Because it does. Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness. And I'm saying this as someone who is absolutely in a position to benefit from AI. If I added a few vibecoded projects to my resume, the gaping maw of every startup, enterprise company, and FAANG behemoth would open to me. Just the other day, I sat near a table of my fellow TAs as they discussed their plans to work at OpenAI after graduation, eyeing $500k salaries. But I don't want to do that. I don't want to prompt Codex for a living, or Claude for that matter.
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