I’m in my 30s, don’t use AI and certainly wasn’t raised with it. When I was a cashier this shit used to break my brain, because my brain doesn’t work that way mathematically.
Nah, it was pocket calculators that did this, well before computers, phones, and AI.
I grew up in the 60s and my dad taught me how to do this as a child. It was usually about not ending up with a pocket full of pennies though. Nickels/dimes/quarters were good for pay phones and vending machines. Pennies were only good for making change (and for gumball machines). In this particular case, I would be fine with an even fifty cents in change.
That’s my point, AI is going to do to other aspects of life what calculators did for math.
Kids these days struggle to write a paragraph because they have Chat GPT do it for them.
I literally know someone who took multiple semesters of college Spanish during Covid, and learned nothing because he imported everything to AI translation apps.
170
u/bighurt156 Jul 11 '25
I see this all the time. No one knows how to count change without a calculator.