As a software engineer, please do.
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I've actively started doing tickets manually again. Just reviewing is exhausting, and yes, in part because I'm overwhelmed by what I don't understand. I'm somewhat new in our codebase and letting AI do all the work means I'll never get to know it in depth. That means I'm not meeting the productivity goals managers have already adopted, though. :/
It’s a poison pill. We can say we want to turn it off to check to see if anyone can still think, but they’re inventing it to turn us all into mindless dolts, so, turning it off kind of defeats their purposes.
Or forever.
Please turn it off.. I am currently dealing with a ~~bunch of fu~~ well meaning but intellectually challenged individuals at an IT team who just reimaged a machine running the master database for one of their sites based on what a chatbot told them.
Now what concerns me most is that this site operates critical life saving equipment. While our software isn't too important, some minimum wage workers are about to have a very high stress weekend is about the worst that will happen and then early next week it should be back to normal. But the same IT team has access to the life saving equipment as well.
My sibling has learned incompetence from AI. They show off the things they had AI make and how they never could have done that themselves when they are things they know how to do themselves (make simple graphics and presentations), and would take much less time than they say they spent refining the prompts.
The whiplash between apparent anti-fascism and purity politics on this site is wild.
Right? Purity politics. I'm not sure what to make of it. I believe it's mostly driven by profit. I haven't read anything about anyone actually driving this as a general strategy. It makes little sense except for general disruption of social cohesion and it feels too spontaneous.
I believe it started with climate / science denialism and fascism, things that you cannot tolerate because they lead to intolerance. Things where the emotional abuse eventually got too much and people just categorically rejected anyone from the other camp. But this has been massively expanded now. Veganism, cars, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, diplomacy, AI.
Right so, this is definitely related to what "purity politics" means, but not what I was referencing. I'm talking about the (liberal) tendency on this site for people to supposedly challenge purity-based political systems and ideologies like fascism, white supremacy, and settler-colonialism one minute, and then accept "piece of technology corrupts the human soul," as an explanation for something better explained through systemic analysis or cultural critique.
The idea that "people's brains don't work because of AI," is deepy puritanical in nature, and attributes the harmful quality to the technology itself and not the socioeconomic conditions where what that AI produces is made subject to liberal capitalist imperatives and logics. Conveniently, it then takes those values for granted in favour of a narrative that is also markedly ableist in its message. Oh, do people who are disabled and require AI use to access ableist education institutions or information on the increasingly oblique and inaccessible internet "wreck their brains?" I wonder if a fascist would even disagree with that narrative.
The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it
When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn't have drivers to support USB and we couldn't upgrade the computers because the software wouldn't work on any other hardware.
So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.
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This guy ITs
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We should turn off AI.
Can you also turn off LLM generated websites for that week? If so, deal.
The CEO's brains are definitely broken. The rest of us? Mostly fine.
As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage. At least as far as the average person goes. Obviously anyone passionate about tech will be far ahead of the average person, regardless of age
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As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
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They weren't using their brains before ai, what made you think they would now?
Are YOU using your brain right now?
You are assuming they worked to begin with.
AI has been an amazing tool for those with no ability to think, to operate slightly like a person who can.
Like a peg leg helps a amutee walk. The issue is they are using to run and claiming they are the fastest.
It happened yesterday for about an hour
Outages via Here's the funny thing .. they never worked to begin with!
I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it'd be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.
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I wish. I would be forced to write some code again and actually get back what I enjoyed to do.
This is why it's important to distinguish between LLMs and AI. Turn off all LLMs and life will go on. Turn off all AI and you lose everything from automated supply chain management to room ACs.
AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.
We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.
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I write well enough for the e-mails I'm required to send, I don't code, I have no use/desire to generate "art," and I don't like search results I have to double check so I've been blessed (cursed?) to not have to use "AI" in my daily life.
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