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Yes but let's continue using Claude to write code because we suck at programming. Really the only way out of this is to STOP NOW using AI and use our brain inst

Yes but let's continue using Claude to write code because we suck at programming. Really the only way out of this is to STOP NOW using AI and use our brain instead. These company will just shut down if we stop using, and thus paying, for their services. Come on, we did without AI for all our history, we could live without it with no issue (as to me we could live without smartphones, internet, etc if we want).

HeWhoLurksLate 1mo ago
we also did without air conditioning, plumbing, democracy, and human rights for millenia, and I wouldn't want to give any of those up
- yehat 1mo ago
  Nobody will ask you, they'll be taken from you, in case you missed what happens around.
- JKCalhoun 1mo ago
  If you are suggesting that air conditioning, plumbing, democracy, and human rights are bad for society then I am missing the analogy.
- alerighi 1mo ago
  I wouldn't even compare AI to any of one. Rather, AI will even contrast with some of these, democracy for example, if we stop critically thinking and delegate everything to AI (= big corporations that control it) it cannot end well to me. Same thing if we continue building datacenters that generate tons of CO2 for doing stuff we can do with well, our brain (that is the most energy efficient computer on earth!) or even better not do at all (because we don't need AI slop), air conditioning will not be enough I fear. Computers and computer programs did work much more reliably when they were written by humans, a modern computer system written mostly with AI has bugs that not even in systems that were in use in the 80s (and some of them are even still in service today!) had. Do you want a planet where the human being is at the center, or the machine? Do you think machines has to be at your service, that you are the one ordering it what to do (that is programming it), or you think you are to be a servant of an AI that takes all the decision for you? Because if you think the second, you want MATRIX or SKYNET, well I don't want MATRIX or SKYNET to be fair (not that it's even possible btw, since AI has anything intelligent in it beside the name, it's just a glorious copy/paste machine).
brookst 1mo ago
The age-old cry of the aging population, faced with tech that didn’t exist when they were young. Turn back time! I’m reminded of the screeds about the dangers of novels.

HeWhoLurksLate 1mo ago

we also did without air conditioning, plumbing, democracy, and human rights for millenia, and I wouldn't want to give any of those up

yehat 1mo ago
Nobody will ask you, they'll be taken from you, in case you missed what happens around.
JKCalhoun 1mo ago
If you are suggesting that air conditioning, plumbing, democracy, and human rights are bad for society then I am missing the analogy.
alerighi 1mo ago
I wouldn't even compare AI to any of one. Rather, AI will even contrast with some of these, democracy for example, if we stop critically thinking and delegate everything to AI (= big corporations that control it) it cannot end well to me. Same thing if we continue building datacenters that generate tons of CO2 for doing stuff we can do with well, our brain (that is the most energy efficient computer on earth!) or even better not do at all (because we don't need AI slop), air conditioning will not be enough I fear. Computers and computer programs did work much more reliably when they were written by humans, a modern computer system written mostly with AI has bugs that not even in systems that were in use in the 80s (and some of them are even still in service today!) had. Do you want a planet where the human being is at the center, or the machine? Do you think machines has to be at your service, that you are the one ordering it what to do (that is programming it), or you think you are to be a servant of an AI that takes all the decision for you? Because if you think the second, you want MATRIX or SKYNET, well I don't want MATRIX or SKYNET to be fair (not that it's even possible btw, since AI has anything intelligent in it beside the name, it's just a glorious copy/paste machine).

brookst 1mo ago

The age-old cry of the aging population, faced with tech that didn’t exist when they were young. Turn back time! I’m reminded of the screeds about the dangers of novels.