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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It's not just about how the story of how AI will make us all so much more "productive" that we'll all have much more free time, which has been told many times in modern history and has never been broadly true.
It is all that.
And.
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On a personal level.
I got curious about computers because they are things I'm able to be curious about. That's it. That's the spark. I can explore them and learn how they work.
Computers are hard sometimes. Sometimes we can figure out ways to make them easier. But if we instead automate doing hard things, using AI to make doing hard things less effort, it doesn't lead to a place I'm excited about.
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@sunfish I was attracted to computers in the 80s and 90s because they were deterministic, precise, predictable, do only what I tell them no more no less, and never make mistakes [caveats omitted for brevity]. It was a toolkit to make whole universes within if you were clever and patient.
Since then they've gotten fuzzier and more opinionated and unreliable. AI is the epitome of that, and coding is the last place I want it. Coding already feels like building on quicksand these days.
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