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it’s interesting how many creatives and professionals see ai as being perfectly able to replace anyone’s work who isn’t theirs, but unable to replace them. i remember seeing a post about storyboarders thinking ai was unfit for storyboards, but good for concept art, and concept artists thinking ai was unfit for concept art, but fine for storyboards.
everyone sees the value in their work, but many can’t see the value of other people’s work, and think an ai-generated approximation that’s "good enough" is fine to replace it… it’s kinda sad, really
the exception is software developers, who are more than eager to replace their own work with ai-generated garbage. i don’t know why so many software devs have so little respect for themselves and their work, but i can’t say i’m surprised honestly.
Nah there’s a lot of propaganda going around about LLMs and programmers. There’s some real die-hard advocates who think their own experiences project to the whole industry. It’s fucking awful at specialised domains with large proprietary codebases. Even if you get past needing a complete lack of moral backbone it just doesn’t make any sense to use in a lot of codebases - not that companies aren’t about to learn an expensive lesson about why.
Software developers are used to basically making themselves obsolete, just to then be more productive. Inevitably, it always ends with non-developers not actually wanting to understand the new fancy tool, and developers just now using that new tool to be more productive.
I think with software dev, most current devs with some years of experience will end up fine. It's the juniors that are fucked, because AI is genuinely better than them in most ways a suit cares about.
Everyone knows the nuances of their own work because they are closer to it
Was going to post the same thing. It's not just the arts either, all branches of academia seem to be suffering from this.
A lot of the dev process is tedious as fuck. I've never met a developer who enjoys writing tests, for example. That plus Agile/kanban long since totally dehumanized the development process by treating devs as fungible engineering units.
Also like every 5 minutes there's a new framework and tool that will become obsolete 5 years later and people don't want to keep learning all of them while every project does their own thing. Programming slop started long before AI took over (looking at you JavaScript)
As a software dev, most of the devs I know hate AI like everyone else. Perhaps more so since many of us took AI classes and understand what AI's are actually useful for.
Vibe coders are the ones ive seen love LLMs since now they cam be software developers too.
Also a software engineer that did NLP research projects in university (pre-LLM days). You can imagine how hair-pullingly stupid I think all of this is as someone that is very familiar with how these models work and are trained.
It should be blindingly obvious that this shit shouldn't be trusted with anything important, yet here we are. A little while ago I watched as one of our senior devops guys was using an LLM to execute scripts/commands for migrating a legacy production environment to a new environment, which was something that we had been meticulously planning for months as it was very complicated. But here he was, cowboying his way through it with an LLM that could have easily done a ton of damage with a single mistaken command. And we were watching this happen over a screen share.
Things did go wrong, but fortunately the problems were minor enough that we could fix it easily enough. It could have been so much worse though.
I hate the pyramid scheme feeding money into billionaire pedo cults of AI and have tried to use local models without getting them working properly yet.
But a job steals my time. In there I must use AI tools to get what I need or I won't have a home or food.
Outside of it, I know the creative skills but simply don't have the resources after they're depleted by the system. So I build with agents. It's not perfect but my projects shouldn't be, they just need to progress. Human time is left for QA, and whatever leftover creative energy remains, I can spend offline.
All in all it's a bummer and also circumstances