Chloé’s context.

BlueSky, GitHub, & Pornhub are all capitalist websites: they are extracting wealth from users.
Blatantly goons need not get paid.

Not all repositories in github are OS.
Even in the event this is gratis development, there’s not enough trans women to do all talks sloppers demand.

Calling raging against the dying of the fucking light “the anger phase” is defeatist pro-AI propaganda. You assume there will be an acceptance phase. I started at acceptance with google deep dream. Now, I fucking fight. And anyone who reaches your “acceptance” phase has become a meat proxy to the stochastic parrot.

Never slop.

wait why does it hold back machine learning? I feel that recent transcription models, genome approximators and classifiers are quite something and large-scale experiments on new problem spaces are green-lit much quicker than before. i personally feel that because the space is so big, there are many more attempts made to use ML systems using those same modern architectures to help in new domains or optimize existing ones.

I am very irritated by the focus on language models and image / video /audio predictors and feel that too many resources are being used exclusively for those. The overall impact is obviously trampling down any of the good stuff.

No your anger is entirely justified. Just misplaced.

Your directing anger towards an inanimate thing. Ai doesn’t care nor is it harming anything you listed.

Human shit stains using ai as a blunt instrument is harming everything you listed.

Being upset at AI is like being upset at guns for massshootings.

Put a gun in the ground and guess what it’s going to do. Fuck all, it’s going to sit there cause it’s a piece of shit metal that can’t do shit.

Direct your anger to the actual sub human shit stains ruining everything for the rest of us. It gives you an actual outlet, an actual real and tangible thing that you can rationalize.

You can DO something about people misusing a tool. You can’t do shit about the tool.

Pandoras box can never be closed. We call all work together to prevent assholes from using what came out of it from making our lives worse tho.

I feel the same… 6 years spent on 2 degrees to get into game development, and as soon as I graduate from the last one, the aftermath of COVID and then AI burn the industry and cause it to be nearly impossible to get into for the average junior and layoffs are increasing each year… Then people say we gotta just “deal with it and stop complaining” 🙄

I’m tired of it all

i feel this so much :<

honestly i might even be fine with it, build my own ai-free bubble, and just keep doing the things i like the manual way, if my job which i am required to work to survive and which i previously enjoyed hadn’t turned to shit because of ai and is threatened to stop existing entirely threatening my lifelyhood

Oof again super grateful I chose healthcare. They’re still trying to shove ai in but at least for now they know Claude can’t wrangle a wildly verbally aggressive schizophrenic who’s also had a stroke and is perpetually covered in piss out of the dayroom and into the shower for the fifth time today.

AI is a new excuse to not hire junior developers. The financial crisis was another excuse. The dot com bubble was another excuse. Junior developers are needed, but hiring authorities hate to employ them.

Nah, you’re valid for this. Anger has purpose. You could resign yourself to the sad life of AI dominance, or you can get mad and set fire to a data center.

i wholeheartedly agree with ya on this. my passion keeps getting messed with.

The job is going to keep existing, but companies really don’t want to hire people right now, specially at entry level

I usually only see this obsession with… u know… peeps within the bubble.

but yea I get that its kinda a coping mechanism. it hit em similarly, maybe not as strongly and things do suck big time rn. Anyway I looked at wonderful paintings in a museum today. awesome stuff, really expressive and just - strong.

There is so much to hate about AI, but programming has not been about typing out code letter by letter for a long time, probably before you and I even started doing it. IDEs have had autocompletion and “generating” whole classes / methods / whatever structure for a couple of years now (although deterministically). Low code / no code has been growing in popularity before LLMs. Generative AI is out of pandoras box, there is no way it will vanish out of software development one day. But we’re also not yet at a point where any sales asshole is able or even willing to create effective and resilient systems as we have seen a couple of times in the recent past. Maybe we will never get there.

Concepts and architecture matter more than code, they always have. Focus on the bigger picture and learn to use LLMs as a tool, in ways and situations / workflows where it unarguably works (even if you doubt it), but refuse to become a meat proxy that became unable to answer a slack message without AI. Tech is not the problem, it’s a handful of people ruining it for everyone while getting stupid crazy rich by fucking up our planet and the people living on it. Don’t let it take away your passion for computers, or else they have won.

yea I know it really is excessive even in the news that generally dont cover this stuff.

it really is something where if ur just strongly against the whole agentic whatevers and stuff… its very hard to ignore. and ye that sucks big time.

There’s reason to be upset with corpo dipshits breaking the law, lying and selling snake oil.

Being upset at AI is just fucking stupid. With out these dipshit corpos the tech would be entirely mundane.

It’s just the snake oil problem. The product isn’t a problem it’s the people hocking it.

Getting mad at the product is exactly what they want cause it means they can do anything and get away with it.

Cause you can’t fucking punish something that isn’t alive.

yeye its just that… everyone else posting so frequently about it is within the bubble.