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the 'afraid to talk about it' framing is the most telling part tbh. somewhere along the way having mixed feelings about a technology became a position you have to defend

Great post. I appreciate that it's neither glorifying nor demonizing. It’s so much better to see a realistic and pragmatic take on AI instead of the usual "all or nothing" hype.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! 🙂

I love this @anniesexton.com. I'm right there with you. I was able to use Claude to build an app based on a paper I wrote when studying Behavioral Psych in the mid 90s. Could I build the app on my own? Yep, but Claude freed up my time to go play with my kids. It's like 3D printing with code.

> I've been working to significantly reduce my animal product consumption, starting with red meat. 🫶

This captures so many thoughts. I’m an accessibility engineer. I write code and I spend hours testing, swearing, and retesting. The UX for keyboard, screen readers, and many other affordances are worth the toil. AI is running faster than I can keep up. No home for artisans.

Much easier said than done...

This uses standard.site subscription records stored on the users AT Protocol repo. Allows applications to easily aggregate your subscriptions, we're still in the process of building the social side of Offprint, so we don't have a reader, but you can view your subs via other standard.site readers

I'm not sure! @offprint.app how does the subscribe feature work? where do you get notified?

I feel that :) I put up a similarly conflicted post a few days ago: bsky.app/profile/acem...

I relate to your experience heavily. Every time I press enter on a prompt, I die a little. But hey, we'll all die regardless right? On a second note, thank you for building this. I'll share what you've built to my comics artist community in Indonesia. They'll be delighted to use it.

As someone who recently quit their job due to forced AI induced burnout, you’d think I’d hate it. But in other news, I’ve been helping a non-profit keep the lights on with agents. I’ve used it first hand as both a tool for shareholders, and a tool for good. What worries me is the former usually wins

I think most engineers feel this way. I know I do. Except the part about Art vs code that is a pretty offensive take to be honest.

One thing that worries me a lot as an art fan too is that a lot of the models' understanding of language comes from art (ie writing.) It's not enough that lots of code is open source & usable - I'd guess prompting is way more effective because the companies used huge amounts of books (for free.)

You’re definitely not alone. This echoes a lot of what I feel as well. It’s so easy to pull the gambling machine, but I don’t always want to pull that lever. There’s something special about the friction of solving a problem that sends my dopamine levels into overdrive.

Long live nuance. Thanks for sharing.

In that case, code isn't solely responsible for doing stuff, but it's meant to be read, interacted with, and it has to be designed to guide and be ergonomic to use.

Thanks for sharing your stance on this. I relate a lot with this back and forth of using coding agents and it overwhelms me a lot.

I think one thing that you touched on was the feeling of atrophy. That feeling has actually made me force myself to work on my side project WITHOUT the use of AI. I've been working on a game on my 2+ hour commute in/out of the city to try and better hone my skills.

yeah someone found and shared the post before it was ready to be shared so i had to unpublish and re-publish it.