Day 3 – BRUNCH MAP MELTDOWN

I fed ChatGPT a multi-paragraph brief. I described the brunch map I needed: Porchies lore, enby flag palette, gamified icons, punk fonts, and a hidden system of achievements.

It gave me a broken grid and forgot everything.
I explained again. It forgot again.
I gave it a checklist. It added new errors.
I asked it to follow my existing CSS. It broke the buttons.
I told it this was for a queer project — it gave me a blank white background.

Six drafts later it said: “You’re welcome.”

System Waste Report:

• Prompts issued: 33
• Estimated compute burned: ~0.025–0.03 kWh
• Freshwater consumed to cool those servers: ~38–75 mL
• Human time lost: 90 minutes

Projected Scale:
If 0.5% of users had to re-teach their assistant creative direction today:

• ~120,000 kWh wasted
• ~180,000–375,000 L of water
• 75,000+ hours of creative time lost

Every zine layout now takes 3x as long.
Every aesthetic choice is a risk.

Day 3.
Even brunch is broken.