Post #2521249

2026-03-11 18:38 UTC

@balinares@furry.engineer i... don't think i'm shouting at people on our side? i am describing a phenomenon that i've witnessed multiple times, whereby someone ostensibly on our side tries claude and then *enthusiastically switches side* and becomes an AI booster. i am therefore suspecting that there is something deeply seductive / addictive about chatbots that results in people abandoning their previously held positions. and that is one of the reasons why i avoid using chatbots, because i am afraid it might work on me. i do get your point about not being completely out of touch to be more convincing, but... you don't need to literally be a recovering gambling addict to reliably warn people against gambling addiction, you just need to be informed enough, you know? and you can get informed enough without spending every night at the casino.

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@nicuveo@tech.lgbt 2026-03-11 18:55

@balinares@furry.engineer i guess you could read my point about why i avoid the use of chatbots altogether as an admonition; but FWIW that's not what i intended? it's not a moral judgement, more of a warning: if you choose to / have to use them, be careful, we don't understand AI psychosis yet but it's a real thing.

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@balinares@furry.engineer 2026-03-11 19:35

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt Glad to hear, then -- at first it sounded like the implication was that someone with a different read of the path from yours must necessarily have "brainworms". Which... Yeah, not cool. :/ The Claude thing, I can perhaps shed some light on. As of only weeks ago, the models passed a threshold where I think they are now viable for their stated purpose. My assessment before that was that they would always just decohere too fast for actual serious code generation to stringent standards. And fuck it, but I now think I was wrong. :/ That's seismic, and changes two big things, IMO. One, people who were in opposition on purely technical grounds, are gonna change sides, yeah. And two, the battle lines have shifted majorly and pretty much overnight. I think we lost the fight for whether codegen will become a standard feature of SWE positions, and we lost it decisively. Abstaining will be hard like abstaining from capitalism is hard and for the same reasons. So yeah, people will move on to the next battle.

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