▲ 525 ▼ Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter (www.techspot.com) submitted 1 week ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/technology@lemmy.world 132 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 child) There is no such thing as just a tool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) Sure. You can talk about the LLM gestalt, if you'd like, that's worth examining, as with any other tool; especially stuff like progressive brain rot. But listening to the complaints people have about LLMs, it's mostly that it's being improperly used to replace human labor. Improperly in the sense that it can't actually do the job it is replacing humans in, which is a separate discussion of what kind of world it will be when there are no jobs for humans to do. LLMs are used responsibly by people doing their own work. For instance, Linus Torvalds used Claude to find errors in the Linux kernel (I think), that he then fixed himself. The problem is that capitalism, especially oligoplic capitalism, will create worse products at lower prices (or higher profits), and it will do so on the shortest timeline, ignoring things like future lawsuits over security flaws and future lack of programming talent and erosion of consumer trust. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) Sure. You can talk about the LLM gestalt, if you'd like, that's worth examining, as with any other tool; especially stuff like progressive brain rot. But listening to the complaints people have about LLMs, it's mostly that it's being improperly used to replace human labor. Improperly in the sense that it can't actually do the job it is replacing humans in, which is a separate discussion of what kind of world it will be when there are no jobs for humans to do. LLMs are used responsibly by people doing their own work. For instance, Linus Torvalds used Claude to find errors in the Linux kernel (I think), that he then fixed himself. The problem is that capitalism, especially oligoplic capitalism, will create worse products at lower prices (or higher profits), and it will do so on the shortest timeline, ignoring things like future lawsuits over security flaws and future lack of programming talent and erosion of consumer trust. permalink fedilink source parent