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Few counterpoints: * AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are

by nmca 3y ago

Few counterpoints: * AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are broadly pretty dim. Plausibly AI is a problem for your employment in like ~2 years; so I'd speedrun into SWE somewhere where you can make as much use of AI as possible (e.g. ask about whether the firm allows copilot, etc). There's no better industry to be in that tech for the next five years; ignore the noise.

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15457345234 3y ago
> * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are broadly pretty dim. Reddit is, at this point, a literal mirror held up to reality. Everything you read there isn't happening. Maybe people want it to happen and think if they spam it enough times people will believe it is happening and report that it is happening, but it isn't. If you read something on reddit, believe the opposite.
- hifromLA 3y ago
  I don’t disagree with this, but when did this happen? About a decade ago I remember Reddit being pretty decent. Did Reddit change or did I change?
  - jasonjmcghee 3y ago
    Ha. A decade and a half ago I remember the community similar to today. Some people are helpful, some people aren't. Some people are decent and some people aren't. And those two groups often don't overlap. The platform itself is a much worse experience though.
  - tensility 3y ago
    Everything on the internet has been seriously enshittified over the prior decade. It isn't just you nor just Reddit.
  - blharr 3y ago
    It's progressively gotten worse, but the point for me was when they removed access for third party apps. Many people who contributed meaningfully left in protest.
    - 15457345234 3y ago
      The comments were delusionally disparate from reality for a long time before that. Reddit always leant left, but pre... idk, 2014 you could imagine the conversations you read on there occurring with someone you might conceivably meet in real life, even if they would be a bit of an outlier. After that, no chance - everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist, the type of person you'd instinctively flee from if you met on the street. And the level of bullying you'd encounter if you went against 'the narrative' went up by a huge factor, as in, instant bans in just about every subreddit, 'if you're not on this side of the issue you're supporting genocide, this is a fact not an opinion' type of interactions. Then reddit updated their blocking system so that blocking someone cut _them_ off from contributing further, which basically made every user a mini-moderator, which was (and is) of course massively abused. The place is long overdue to go under; offlining it would remove about 50% of the overall negativity from the internet, and considering it's such a small space compared with FB/Twitter that's really saying something.
      - jf22 3y ago
        > everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist I question the credibility of people that use broad hyperbolic generalizations like this.
        15457345234 3y ago
        I am definitely incredible.
      - enterprise_cog 3y ago
        Ah yes, the leftists who posted in fatpeoplehate, jailbait, theDonald, and all the gamergate subs.
- dsattt 3y ago
  It’s the same here as well. Everything you read about tech is wishful thinking.
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    There's a lot of very weird optimism here for technologies that are VISIBLY making the world worse or aren't appropriate for the use case. So many comments praising Discord in the 'why you shouldn't use Discord for FOSS' thread, all of which were basically 'yeah you should use it; it's cool and has a great UI' and zero substantial discussion of how it meets the needs of a support platform (because it doesn't, the searchability and retrievability is terrible.)
dijit 3y ago
> AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. no, that is exactly the opposite of true, AI is brilliant at boilerplate and finding relevance if you know the right terms, just like search engines, it makes your existing knowledge more useful but it definitely does not provide knowledge. you have to be able to fully comprehend the right answer with AI for it to be useful..
- jasonjmcghee 3y ago
  Not to mention hallucinations/ wrong answers. If your mental compiler / familiarity with referenced libs is the same as reading, you can respond "no xyz doesn't make sense / doesn't exist etc" Having to incorporate an execution / compilation / test loop is going to slow that way down
- roland35 3y ago
  I don't totally agree. As you ask it more specialized and high level questions that may be true, but for beginner level stuff AI is very helpful since there is quite a lot it is based on.

by nmca 3y ago

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15457345234 3y ago

> * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are broadly pretty dim. Reddit is, at this point, a literal mirror held up to reality. Everything you read there isn't happening. Maybe people want it to happen and think if they spam it enough times people will believe it is happening and report that it is happening, but it isn't. If you read something on reddit, believe the opposite.

hifromLA 3y ago
I don’t disagree with this, but when did this happen? About a decade ago I remember Reddit being pretty decent. Did Reddit change or did I change?
- jasonjmcghee 3y ago
  Ha. A decade and a half ago I remember the community similar to today. Some people are helpful, some people aren't. Some people are decent and some people aren't. And those two groups often don't overlap. The platform itself is a much worse experience though.
- tensility 3y ago
  Everything on the internet has been seriously enshittified over the prior decade. It isn't just you nor just Reddit.
- blharr 3y ago
  It's progressively gotten worse, but the point for me was when they removed access for third party apps. Many people who contributed meaningfully left in protest.
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    The comments were delusionally disparate from reality for a long time before that. Reddit always leant left, but pre... idk, 2014 you could imagine the conversations you read on there occurring with someone you might conceivably meet in real life, even if they would be a bit of an outlier. After that, no chance - everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist, the type of person you'd instinctively flee from if you met on the street. And the level of bullying you'd encounter if you went against 'the narrative' went up by a huge factor, as in, instant bans in just about every subreddit, 'if you're not on this side of the issue you're supporting genocide, this is a fact not an opinion' type of interactions. Then reddit updated their blocking system so that blocking someone cut _them_ off from contributing further, which basically made every user a mini-moderator, which was (and is) of course massively abused. The place is long overdue to go under; offlining it would remove about 50% of the overall negativity from the internet, and considering it's such a small space compared with FB/Twitter that's really saying something.
    - jf22 3y ago
      > everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist I question the credibility of people that use broad hyperbolic generalizations like this.
      - 15457345234 3y ago
        I am definitely incredible.
    - enterprise_cog 3y ago
      Ah yes, the leftists who posted in fatpeoplehate, jailbait, theDonald, and all the gamergate subs.
dsattt 3y ago
It’s the same here as well. Everything you read about tech is wishful thinking.
- 15457345234 3y ago
  There's a lot of very weird optimism here for technologies that are VISIBLY making the world worse or aren't appropriate for the use case. So many comments praising Discord in the 'why you shouldn't use Discord for FOSS' thread, all of which were basically 'yeah you should use it; it's cool and has a great UI' and zero substantial discussion of how it meets the needs of a support platform (because it doesn't, the searchability and retrievability is terrible.)

dijit 3y ago

> AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. no, that is exactly the opposite of true, AI is brilliant at boilerplate and finding relevance if you know the right terms, just like search engines, it makes your existing knowledge more useful but it definitely does not provide knowledge. you have to be able to fully comprehend the right answer with AI for it to be useful..

jasonjmcghee 3y ago
Not to mention hallucinations/ wrong answers. If your mental compiler / familiarity with referenced libs is the same as reading, you can respond "no xyz doesn't make sense / doesn't exist etc" Having to incorporate an execution / compilation / test loop is going to slow that way down
roland35 3y ago
I don't totally agree. As you ask it more specialized and high level questions that may be true, but for beginner level stuff AI is very helpful since there is quite a lot it is based on.