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I am determined to prove that you can be largely anti-AI but also not be an asshole. The attitudes of some people on this site will NOT win over any minds or win you over any favours. If you insult someone, you are doing it to a real person. And it sucks!

I think that the fringes of the anti-AI movement have lost all context about how widespread these tools already are in society. The cat is already out of the bag. I see it every day with my students, fellow educators, or friends in software engineering.

We need to work on tight regulations, laws that protect human work, protecting living standards, and continuing to fight the climate crisis. But AI in coding will never go away at this point, like how LLMs applied to machine translation have been doing just fine for ~10 years on sites like DeepL.

Pretending otherwise is futile and is wasting the extremely limited time we have to save our planet and our society at the same time. I do not think that abolitionism will get us anywhere.

I've seen Deepl quality go down sharply in the last 2 years. May be caused by LLMs or not of course, correlation is not causation etc. Still, worse product now for me.