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I think it’s important for anyone who (completely understandably) checked out on AI the second the crypto/nft/metaverse/snake oil chuds started pushing it to realize that, in at least the domain of software development, we are very much living in a scenario where the snake oil actually works

there’s an uncomfortable nuance probably worth diving into about the ethics of using generative AI to ship code versus generate art assets versus clone a person’s voice versus push slop to the algorithms. I truly don’t know where the line is. it’s frustrating

are AI coding tools capable of delivering useful work: verifiably yes is there actual real demand for AI coding tools: verifiably yes is that demand sufficient to support the economics: a lot of people would sure like to know!! is AI ontologically evil: to be determined by the RoboWars

Are AI coding tools making my job way harder because the most incompetent people I work with are now outsourcing all of their work to AI and are just straight up posting insanely wordy incredibly wrong walls of bullshit from Claude in Teams which is now my problem to review? Yes

And of course said incompetent people look good to management because they're producing so much output! Look at this extensive documentation they produced! Meanwhile I can't get anything done because I'm too busy reading through the shit they're spamming out.

You know you could send their shit through an ai and with the right prompts actually show it's shit?