Does anyone else get dull feelings of dread reading this kind of thing? How do you combat it?
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Additionally, we have multiple languages, both software and hardware products and finally there’s also the question of external stakeholders, of which there are many. So AI would need a tremendous amount of oversight for that to work.
With collective action and targeted scorn we might be able to prevent these abominations from becoming commonplace. At the same time, I know that the more people go for this approach, the more work there will be for me to fix their mess..but I still think we should stop them somehow.
I think we should stand up for what is important in life: craft, fulfillment, skills, and actively oppose people, tools and activities that trample on good.
Still do the workouts, still do the best job you can, but also make sure to use satire, ridicule and humor to make the people writing posts like this just a tad more uncomfortable and second guess themselves before posting a link to a vibed blog with such low quality.
This future is being forced on humanity by pluto/megalomaniacs who are gaslighting everyone into believing that this technology will be a net improvement to our lives. Meanwhile, the truth is that only those in power will benefit from it, and the benefit to humanity as a whole is very much in question, even by optimistic criteria. If you adopt a slightly realistic viewpoint, let alone pessimistic, you'll realize that the track record of these people is abysmal. They will lie, cheat, and steal their way into ensuring their own prosperity, while the rest of the world burns for all they care. The fact their actions are rarely if ever regulated by governments with the severity they should be, and that they're increasingly taking positions of actual political power, should scare the living daylights out of any sane person.
I don't know what the solution to this is, but I'm increasingly leaning towards going completely off grid and checking out from society. Even if this path doesn't result in our literal annihilation, it will have similar practical effects for the vast majority of humanity.
It's not crypto. It will 100% be around for the foreseeable future. Maybe not in the form it currently exists and maybe not even at the scale it currently exists, but it's here to stay.
As developers, we're just as biased as the CEO at the top trying to hawk this stuff but in the opposite manner.
We, as human beings, keep trying this and eventually figure out how to get models to build more and more of the software stack for us and professionally!
Embracing it means the software we all rely on becomes progressively worse, and our ability to understand and fix that software will decrease as well.
Embracing this also likely means we accept that our salaries will decrease, while others will lose their jobs outright.
Finally, it means we accept a world where people are now all reliant on AI trained and deployed by a select few companies to do our thinking. This is especially irksome when these companies are ran by the same people who previously ruined public discourse through social media apps, and gave a generation of children mental health issues and insecurities.