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Written by Dan Gohman on 2024-11-21 at 16:37

I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.

I'm not even curious about it.

It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.

It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.

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Written by Nick (Alatar the Blue) on 2024-11-21 at 19:13

@sunfish AI is a tool - just like an IDE, or anything else in the toolkit. I think the misguided-ness comes in when people start to believe that the tool owns responsibility for knowledge vs. being an implement to use that knowledge effectively. AI is great at writing boilerplate, and I’m happy to let it do that part - but that doesn’t remove the transfer of understanding and ownership of the code from me to a GPU in the sky somewhere. I think people who understand that will be ok.

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Written by Alex Celeste on 2024-11-21 at 20:00

@alatartheblue there is a large cohort of users who actively and aggressively do not want to understand that, the laundering of all responsibility is what they want

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Written by Nick (Alatar the Blue) on 2024-11-21 at 20:39

@erisceleste @sunfish sure, but that’s always been the case. It isn’t new. “The compiler didn’t catch that memory leak” - see the rise and importance of Rust and other memory-safe languages. From the human perspective, response is the same - those who want to dig in and care will rise to the top, those who just want the computer to catch it all will be in the “good enough” category.

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