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Most of my anti-AI takes are either: 1) Bad actors using AI at scale to do bad things 2) AI just commodifying everything and making humans into zoo animals
by EGreg 1y ago
Most of my anti-AI takes are either:
1) Bad actors using AI at scale to do bad things
2) AI just commodifying everything and making humans into zoo animals
- specproc 1y agoMy anti AI take is that it's no fun. I'm on a small personal project with it intentionally off, and I honestly feel I'm moving through it faster and certainly having a better time. I also have a much better feel for the code. These are all just vibes, in the parlance of our times, but it's making me question why I'm bothering with LLM assisted coding. Velocity is rarely the thing in my niche, and I'm not convinced babysitting an agent is all in all faster. It's certainly a lot less enjoyable, and that matters, right?
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoMore specifically for (1), the combined set of predators, advertisers, businesses, and lazy people using it to either prey or enshittify or cheat will make up the vast majority of use cases.
- EGreg 1y agoBut notice how I got automatically heavily downvoted by merely mentioning legitimate downsides of AI
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoYeah you're on a forum where lots of people hope to profit from AI, it's probably unavoidable.