I ran across this video the other day that I thought did a great job of summing up all the reasons why I intend never to touch GenAI bullshit.
And it’s from a former “vibe coder”. I’ll definitely be keeping this in my back pocket to share with people who ask me why I eschew GenAI.
I really wish Programming. dev werent so pro-AI, makes it harder to talk about issues like these to other programmers.
I’m on programming.dev. I don’t usually pay much attention to which host people are posting from but mostly when I’m reading Lemmy from here I see just waves and waves of “this slop is slop” posts and very few “but no it’s useful” responses.
Almost no posts reach me that start out as pro-AI.
The admins sent me a warning about being anti-AI so I told them to go fuck themselves and I deleted my account on their instance. I had multiple comments removed before that under my own posts for arguing with sloppers who took it upon themselves to be slop missionaries and downvote brigade me.
Well, I mean, telling people to go fuck themselves is not the usual way to really connect with people and get a message communicated, exactly…
At least not most messages.
Go fuck yourself
I did see that coming.
But for real if you want to actually convince people of things you just can’t talk to them that way. Nobody will listen to that.
I hate the LLM AI. I think it’s corrosive to our minds when we use it, I think if it succeeds as a business technology it will make the world worse by pollution, by robbing people of the incentive to make genuine new creative expressions, and by weakening their ability to make genuine new creative expressions even when they want to. To the extent that it lets people accomplish things they couldn’t otherwise accomplish — which it does — it does so badly in unsafe ways.
I say all that with not the slightest fear of having my comment suppressed, because I’m not attacking you while I do it.
For anybody reading this, I hope my post and all the other zillion posts saying the same thing on Lemmy help you to keep the courage to say “No thanks, boss, I think the work comes out better when I do it myself. By the time I’m done checking, finding, and correcting errors it comes out better and faster my way.”
And I hope you can keep your temper and say it with firm, even conviction. Because all life is politics and how you say things appears to matter more for most people than what you say.
Didn’t even read it, slopper
I know, how dare the people who support technology in the technology instance. Parish the thought.
Ah. I didn’t even realize they were. I’ve blocked all the pro-GenAI communities I’ve run across, so it may be that it’s been so long since I had enough exposure to any of the pro-GenAI content on programming.dev that I’ve forgotten about programming.dev being all pro-GenAI.