Post #2853026

2026-02-13 10:18 UTC

@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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@gisgeek@floss.social 2026-02-13 10:34

@sjn@chaos.social Ah nice example the image. Let me explain. Incidentally, I'm perfectly able to draw a self-portrait of myself in Moebius style. But I had no intention to do that for a series of reason, including the time to dedicate to use ink and colors for that (I'm an old fashioned amateur comic book artist). I deliberately choose to not doing that. So the use of AI says exactly nothing about me (i.e, it is not relevant) which is the point. Did you draw your avatar personally?

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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu 2026-02-16 13:09

@sjn@chaos.social @gisgeek@floss.social "I think that strictly within the software development field, you may have a point - under the right circumstances." hard disagree, and honestly, people thinking that putting bits of already existing code together until it looks like it working is the same as software development is insulting to say the least. Like, I can heap a lot of actual shit together in a river until stuff can pass to the other side and call it a bridge... but that doesn't make me an engineer.

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