Post #1494404

2026-01-18 17:20 UTC

@lucydev It democratizes it by making it available for the people who can't / don't want to / don't have the time for learning it. We're already seeing non-programmers successfully create quite substantial coding projects with AI, to an extend which surprises even me, who was a huge proponent for AI in coding from the start. Same applies to art, there are many people who need or want art (small business owners, hobbyist game creators, wedding organizers, school teachers), but don't have the budget for the real thing. Of course, many artists and programmers don't want this to happen and try to invent reasons why this is a bad idea, just as phone operators didn't want the phone company to "force" customers to make their own calls, and just as elevator drivers tried to come up with reasons why driverless elevators were unsafe.

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@lucydev@wetdry.world 2026-01-18 17:34

@miki without trying to convince you of anything (your stance on ai is yours, i'm not trying to change it), I can assure you that the reasons why many developers see generating production code with AI as a bad idea are not made up. I am all for exchanging ideas between folks with different opinions, but this had to be said.

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@KatS@chaosfem.tw 2026-01-21 14:02

@miki @lucydev It democratizes it by making it available for the people who can't / don't want to / don't have the time for learning it. No, I'm sorry, but it doesn't. What it "democratises" is being an art director who commissions a machine to generate things derived from the (uncredited, un-compensated) work of others (whose lack of consent was gleefully violated). Gutenberg democratised learning, with his movable-type press. Encylopaedias took that a step further, and Wikipedia amped it up again. Blogs and Youtube democratised the sharing of knowledge and skills. All these things have enabled people to learn how to do a thing. But if you typed in a description and got a picture in return, you did not create that picture. You commissioned it.

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