I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I’ve been a machinist for ~18 years. It’s been really bad for the last 9 years and I’ve more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).

I’ve just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This fucking sucks. I’d love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.

I wish it wasn’t this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there’s a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.

Please help.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    The emulator in had could do tool path correction, and tell you when you would crash. And they were working on lights out automation when I left, albeit classical programming, not AI. Was easier for us given we only supported a very limited number of machine models though.

    I suspect, and you’ll know better, but these guys dont know shit about machining, which is why they are coming to you. I suspect that they have no idea how large the problem space actually is, and they are just going to try to brute force an AI solution.

    And I dont think that is viable for machining.

    Whether you do this correctly or not won’t change that they dont know what they are doing. My guess is you can give them exactly what they ask for, and after a month or 2 it won’t work, and theyll ask you to redo it all slightly differently, and youll go through that cycle until they run out of money.

    You may as well take their money. And be smart about it. You need a top end dSLR camera to record accurate footage, get them to send you one. You need a top end PC and a high res and high framerate monitor to process the footage.