Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
  • UndercoverUlrikHD 🇳🇴@programming.dev
    11·
    1 day ago

    I swear, people either think it’s a wish granting genie or a worthless hallucinating scam. There is zero room for actual rational discussion. It’s either magic and perfect or the exact opposite and a curse. It’s either the coolest modern tech or an environment destroying disaster. Either we should invest all our money in it, or none.

    That just seems to discussions about anything on the modern day Internet in general. Whenever I talk to programmers in real life, the discussions tend to be nuanced with people acknowledging both the pros and cons.

    • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Whenever I talk to programmers in real life, the discussions tend to be nuanced with people acknowledging both the pros and cons

      That’s why I suspect that a large number of “anti ai coding” people are cosplaying as developers but are not really in the industry, or are too junior to have an objective opinion about the tool. The things they complain about are a dead giveaway that they have no grip on the reality of software engineering.

      Not saying you can’t be legitimately anti-AI as a developer. You can say “I won’t try it cause fuck that shit”, that’s entirely valid and kinda based. Or you can say “I tried it and it didn’t really work for me for whatever reason”, 100% valid. But if you repeat ultra-polarized nonsense that is completely departed from the realities of the trade then yeah i’m gonna mark you down as a cosplayer. Which is weird to me because if i was to cosplay something i’d cosplay as something cool like Batman or Goku. Not as some boring specialized salaryman.

      • mabeledo@lemmy.world
        1·
        20 hours ago

        Same could be said about AI mongers.

        I’ve noticed that many recent apes submitted to projects I follow are from people who couldn’t write a “hello world” a month ago. Now, they are burning tokens on a few agents that scan public repos for reported bugs and submit patches. Of course, they don’t know what the code does. They are farming something, maybe reputation, maybe something else, but in no way are they coders.

        • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu
          2·
          19 hours ago

          Same could be said about AI mongers

          Yeah, AI maximalists and degenerate vibe-coders are no smarter. It’s really two sides of the same manichean coin. It’s such a distinctly american way of seeing things and i can’t relate to any of it.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      I blame the news cycle and blatant market manipulation that goes unpunished. Making ground breaking technology isn’t enough anymore. It has to be “Machine God Will destroy us all” level tech to make the headlines and subsequently make the market truly react in a way they can profit from it.

      Someone could literally be on the verge of fusion energy and it wouldn’t make headlines as much as AI does today. It’s all about the marketing and hype, and they are going to make this AI bubble grow as big as possible then eject in time to save themselves.