I decided to stop using AI for coding at my job, even if it costs me that job. I don't know what the future will bring, but I know it will be one where I don...

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.

  • CandleTiger@programming.dev
    81·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      72·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • CandleTiger@programming.dev
        72·
        9 hours ago

        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.

          • CandleTiger@programming.dev
            62·
            9 hours ago

            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.

            • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
              3·
              2 hours ago

              I also think - this is the way.

              And from my experience, it got easier to discuss with many people. At first there was some hype. It wasn’t clear where we’d be going with this… And now we all got some experience in how it affects the workplace atmosphere. How stuff like training new people doesn’t really work out anymore. Some of us tried to replace a broken harddrive at home or thought about buying a new gaming computer… And this isn’t just some hype and hypothetical discussion anymore, but the real-world effects are slowly trickling in. Makes it easier for me to have a more down-to-earth conversation.
              I mean there’s still a lot of misinformation out there, and some people uphold crazy beliefs… But that isn’t all there is to it, anymore.