Post #2207431

2026-04-24 08:13 UTC

@swetland@chaos.social I kind of feel like the issue is that there are some people in tech who've always looked for an excuse to be elitist, and who've just ported that elitism over from "you're not a real programmer if you use arduino" for the purpose of getting to be elitist, rather than trying to make a correct point; and I'm starting to see "stop using AI, this is obviously slop code" applied to code that was written by e.g. students by hand.

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@ktemkin@provably.online 2026-04-24 08:23

@swetland@chaos.social there are lots of valid arguments against AI code that can be made (e.g. using banks of GPUs to generate your little program is a huge hit to the environment for little output) that don't happen also to encourage the technical elitism that's stained our industry when people tell me that AI writes code like a junior engineer, I tend to point out that reviewing inexperienced code is a more difficult art than writing it, and onboarding junior engineers is something I do so I can help them grow; it's an investment I'm making in someone so they'll eventually not need through, difficult reviews to me, AI coding would present me with the downsides of giving a task to a more junior engineer without all that work translating into any potential for growth

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@swetland@chaos.social 2026-04-24 08:38

@ktemkin@provably.online What I'm griping about here is people making the claim that "ai" images or writing are a problem but code, oh that's fine. It's one specific example of "oh ai X is bad but ai Y is fine" where X is always something the poster values or does themselves and Y is some other 'unimportant' component of the project. I'd far rather see messy code from a human than perfect code from an LLM (though I'm pretty skeptical about the existence of the latter).

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