@FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe
2026-09-12 16:50 UTC
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@boraginoru@lemmy.zip 2026-09-13 03:57
There are different attitudes of engineers. Some are more results-oriented and see the code as just a means to an end. It’s difficult to get good at programming and AI makes it so you don’t really have to, so they gladly accept it as a way to build things faster. And then there’s me on the exact opposite end of that spectrum. I don’t care much at all for the end result except that it’s what allows me to get to do programming. I like the puzzle and figuring out how to make it all work line-by-line. AI takes away all of the fun part and it does it so terribly. Up til now both types of programmers got along decently well because building things correctly and quickly have usually taken similar paths. But with the advent of AI we’re now quite at odds with each other, and it’s been quite a pain for me.
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@rangber@lemmy.zip 2026-09-13 05:46
How many AI driven threats are artists dealing with? Because they are here, cheaper to make, and much more potent than they used to be.
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@throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 2026-09-14 04:32
as a coder myself, I admit that sometimes coders are the dumbest people in the world because they live in their own bubble. they only see these as mere tools that would greatly help with development. do they know how many resources are wasted by data centers? do they care when the people suffer from data center pollution? or do they realised LLM trained by stealing people works? etc
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2026-09-14 12:23
A lot more software developer are only there for as a career than artists in the art world, so you’re immediately surrounded by people who see stuff like code performance and readability as “something nerdy”, while you can push out more lines of code instead of optimizing. Not more features, more lines of code, as coding got taken over by the careerists. That mixed with: most tech criticism used to come from out-of-touch parents, thinking you’re from one Quake match away from getting a machine gun to “play it in real life” (was even prevalent in non-US countries due to all kinds of moral panics); seeing unsupportative parents utterly devastating their kids’ careers in tech due to weird beliefs and expectations, seeing at least some tech fad eventually working out after the toxic hype cycle (Jack Tramiel wanted you to use your C64 for food recipes), forgetting that many hyped tech did actually die off (remember Kinect and NFTs?) lead to people to think LLMs are the next big thing even if AGI won’t come. There’s also the issue of how society frames AI “extremism”. People like to think in horseshoe theories, and that extremists are necessarily annoying. The tech industry likes to frame “vibe coders with AI psychosis” and “people really not wanting to engage with AI” as the extremes to avoid. In reality, the two extremes are TESCREALists, and anti-tech extremists. Also seen many “totally not vibe coders” using AI to generate a general understanding for the code to avoid scrutiny, while seen “AI assisted” coding going just as off the rails as vibe coding due to overly trusting the chatbot, with many still going down the AI psychosis route.