Post #3841373

2026-07-15 17:56 UTC

@glyph@mastodon.social I understand the anti-AI mindset. I think it would be a more convincing argument if you identify actual problems in the product resulting from AI use. Calling Python poisoned slop because contributors have been using AI isn't going to change anyone's mind pro or con about AI. Finding problems might sway pro-AI users.

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 18:04

@nedbat@hachyderm.io I have many thoughts about this: 1. I fully agree with you that this is not at all persuasive as an argument. 2. I spend an absolutely inordinate amount of time making more serious, considered, balanced arguments. If anyone reading along at home has not yet seen https://blog.glyph.im/tag/ai.html I'd encourage them to go there to get something more thoughtful. 🧵

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@isagalaev@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 18:19

@nedbat@hachyderm.io @glyph@mastodon.social the problem many of us have with the use of AI* has nothing to do with the quality of the artifact it produces. Here's a drastic analogy: I don't care about the quality of clothes produced from cotton harvested with slave labor. AI is not slavery, of course, but the argument is the same: I don't want to use the product of an immoral technology. *) AI, as in billionaire-controlled LLMs built on mass resource extraction with complete disregard of adverse effects.

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