Post #2853021
2026-02-13 10:08 UTC
Replies (4)
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@sjn@chaos.social 2026-02-13 10:18
@gisgeek@floss.social I think that strictly within the software development field, you may have a point - under the right circumstances. Sadly, these tools aren't _only_ used for supporting highly skilled software developers. Just take a look at your profile photo - clearly generated! What do you think this tells people about yourself? This is what I'm asking in the poll: Does the next person seeing that image associate it with a positive, negative, or no change in quality? Makes you think, no?
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@binford2k@hachyderm.io 2026-02-13 17:06
@gisgeek@floss.social @sjn@chaos.social you’re missing the point. The question isn’t whether #AI will help generate better code or not, it’s what effect the presence of a “made with AI” badge would have on perceived quality. Yes, a skilled programmer can absolutely use AI to generate even better code, for every one of them there are at least ninety-nine other goobers gleefully churning out slop as fast as their slop churning machine will go. This means that when I see a “made by AI” badge, there’s a 1% chance it’s quality and 99% chance it’s slop.
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@cavanholi@kind.social 2026-02-13 20:00
@gisgeek@floss.social @sjn@chaos.social mildly agree with this. though humans can make poor products, llm cannot make good ones. so it is a choice of either 'mediocre to rubbish' from AI, or, 'good to mediocre to rubbish' from a human. and lets not forget at the end of the day, it is a human pushing the product forward, either human or AI made, and it is a human profitting from it. but if it is AI made, then the one profitting does not care about the wasted resourcers and possible misuse of intellectual property (...)
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@Aron@nerdculture.de 2026-02-20 09:44
@gisgeek@floss.social @sjn@chaos.social While you're right with what you say you circumvent the actual question. It's about the expected/perceived level of quality, not the actual quality (and maybe about morality). If the prices are the same would you buy the organic fair traded oranges or the ones that come from a company known for exploiting their workers and not caring for environmental impacts of their production?