Fuck AI

I think this so much less convincing than selling AI as a replacement for skilled labor, not as a way to intentionally deskill actual software engineers.

Capitalism already has a way of preventing you from making your own commodities - you sell your time, and the less they pay you for it relative to how much you need to live, the less time you have for yourself to put towards self sufficiency. We don't have many FOSS products, not because nobody has the knowledge or skill to make them, but because nobody has the time to make them.

There are plenty of reasons to hate corporate-owned AI products, we don't need to be hallucinating new ones.

TBH I always felt the same way with "Blueprint" programming where you plug nodes into nodes.

To this day never once used them.

This also applies to writing emails. Some folks were bad enough at it before. Now, they'll never learn, and can't even proof read what the AI wrote....so their emails aren't any better now, than they were before.

Are there seriously scientists who think AI assistants are good enough for the job?

It took me way too long to get what deskilling means

my best of is: Desk-illing, des-killing, or deskil-ling

Yeah definitely not our profit driven models.

AI can do it cheaper... so just have the AI do it. Its that simple, people really don't like it when things are so simple but can't do anything about it. So they just make shit up like this.

He still got a point, but premise is pretty ridiculous.

I use copilot at work. the predictive generation is pretty good i.e you start writing a for loop and it finishes it for you with all the variable names used correctly (most of the time). This also has the added benefit of making you name your variables clearly. the better they are the better the predicitions will be. i wouldnt trust it to do more than that though

A friend of mine wanted to make an incremental game. I told them "hey that's a pretty good project to learn programming with" but they insisted on using an LLM. Then they proudly showed me what they got so far, it was a decent looking singular html page, but without any game logic whatsoever. Most of the code was just stylesheets - and even those had some questionable things going on lol

This has been happening for quite a while. Do you know how to work a sewing machine? Have you ever repaired your clothes? Oh well, back to Walmart.

I still think that local models in places without internet are better then offline documentation.

I use ai to become a better coder, not to replace me.