Oh my, I just realized that we have now everything we need to cook food at home. We don't need the restaurants anymore! The whole industry is going to be dead in few years.
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OMG we are so ~~cooked~~ baked.
I was a baker for some years about 23 years ago, I will tell any baker that they will make better money working for the company delivering the flour, probably have better hour and still get to eat baked goods all the time. Unless you are a craft baker you are just reheating frozen dough.
The quickest way to ruin the enjoyment of making food is to do it for customers. I've been told for those last 20ish years that I should open a restaurant, I always reply the same "I cook for those I love and like, not asshole customers"
Didn't you hear? Elon announced the total collapse of the baking industry within the next 6 months.
That's a failed joke to me. When I was living in London I bought one of those and I was making better and cheaper bread that I could find, including electricity cost.
That thing paid itself very quickly and I was happier with it.
And the AI that's trying to moke is better than a dozen people in my company. We recently got bored of waiting for a tool and tried to just prompt it. In a few hours it was in better shape starting from scratch that another team has managed in over a month.
Of course I am proficient enough I could spot the issues quickly and prompt a solution
You forgot the "/s". In our current times someone could believe you really think that way.
This little machine is incredible. I disagree with OP’s premise, but this makes yummy little loaves.
I cleaned out my kitchen about a year ago and got rid of the bread machine that had sat, taking up space, unused for close to twenty years in a bottom cabinet.
So, no, AI is not going to take over every job, and the way it's looking, the current iteration of "AI" isn't going to take over many jobs at all.
i tryed to make a power point with copilot, i even gave a template as pptx file. it was horrible. it can not even put words in a table in the template.
For fun, I tried doing the same with a presentation I was thinking of doing for work. I work in a kindergarten, and I just... it's like it was made by someone at McKinsey or something, every simple and plain sentence I had was drawn out into a glorious jargon-filled mess
it will, however, create jobs
someone’s gotta clean up all the slop
End users aren’t the customer.
Yup, and there are a lot less bakers around now that machines do most of it.
No, I think there are fewer bakers.
They're also smaller
I don't trust small bakers...
How can a 50 year old (66 by now) look that young? Witchcraft or technoheresy!
Is this a grammer thing? I'm fairly certain I can use "a lot less".
Hmm nvm, I don't recognize the meme.
It is a grammar thing. You can have a lot less of a non-count noun, like sand. But you have to have fewer of countable nouns, like loaves of bread, or bakers of bread
Ahhh I see, thank you
Non-countable? I think some vampires might disagree.
I also thought Thor relevant but I can't find anything to support that.
Whether something is a. Punt or non-count noun is more convention than actual ability to be counted
You can use "less" when it's a non-discrete plurality, such as water or sand (ignoring the technical fact that these can now be observed as discrete components below the macroscopic level) or money (the made-up kind, not necessarily the physical representations thereof). It's vastly more messy to have 1.78 bakers, and their families get really upset about it, so it's safer just to use "fewer."
To be fair, knowing what the first mass production machines looked like, some families definitely got back .78 of their baker.
Jk tho, thanks for the correction.
This is such a weird post. Is it satirical? Baking as a profession functionally does not exist anymore.
That's fair, but we also get successful bread much more than half the time.
It's kind of similar, I think. I mean most store bought bread is low quality compared to the artisinal product. Corporations don't care if the product sucks so long as they can replace the worker.
The difference is that bread is a minimum viable product, while Gen AI slop tends to eventually become descructive vs. productive.
I used to have a naysayer coworker, and he was the most annoying shit. He'd always say things like, "In ten years, this building won't even be here anymore." Eventually, you just learn to say, "Okay, I'm just going to get back to work."
I can’t find a baker who makes loaves of bread to save my life. Even living near a major city, it’s all pastry. I just want to support a local business and have delicious fresh bread.
My neighbor is an independent baker. He makes "regular" bread in various types in addition to pastries.
He closed his retail business during COVID and never reopened it. He reports that it is significantly less hassle to sell directly to local businesses (restaurants, delis, etc.) and their only consumer sales are now made at local farmer's markets. Your local bakeries only sell pastries because they're the only things that sell. The reason for this is broadly speaking that individual consumers are whiny and entitled shitheads, and "the grocery store has it cheaper."
in germany bread baking is its own valuable branch of baking and it's often treated with a lot of sincerity
Who's baking disingenuously?
Grupo Bimbo Bakeries.
I know it's not exactly what you're saying, but a lot of grocery store bakeries bake loaves of bread.
I remember reading about how in Australia we bake dough made in Ireland. As somehow it’s cheaper to mass manufacture shitty dough and ship it across the globe.
I’ll stick to a traditional bakery’s bread over a supermarkets if given the choice.
I just bake my own bread. It is healthier and with tastier flavor.
That's odd, I live in a pretty small city and there are multiple local bakeries. I just wish there was one a little easier to walk to.
I was thinking the same thing but I'm guessing it's the major city part that is the issue. Rent and labor probably make it too expensive in major cities.
That's interesting, there's two bakeries with bread within walking distance from me. But they're not square loaves, it's sourdough and rodeo bread and challah and baguette and focaccia... And rolls, and yes pastries as well. Tbf, I live in Los Angeles so the unusual part isn't variety, it's the "walking."