My mom (in her 70s) is always asking me questions about AI, so last time I was home I showed her how Claude Code works so we could vibecode a Wordle clone together. I also showed how I would normally write code in an editor to make a few final tweaks.

When we were done she said, “I had no idea what you did for a living was so boring.”

@liza My parents also recently asked me to explain “AI” to them. Apparently it’s just penetrated the Boomer bubble.

@siracusa @liza my mother is extremely technophobic in the sense that she's afraid of "breaking" something. I defined AI as "plagiarising the whole Internet in order to make bad quality summaries" and she knew what i was talking about.

My father said "I don't want a new laptop because it will have AI".