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NGL, watching Bluesky bully a software developer for using AI makes a part of me question whether some of the worst people that I don’t agree with on much of anything are right about this place.

Zero AI is not happening. It’s not possible. If we don’t shift our energy to responsible AI, then we’ll get irresponsible AI and it will be partly our fault. Don’t shoot the messenger, this is just the reality.

Oh hey, look at me, making books and art and programs and not using genAI Crazy, I must be magic or something

I didn’t mean to say that it’s impossible to do things without GenAI. I meant that a blanket zero AI policy for *everything* is impossible. Writing programs professionally without GenAI puts you at a competitive disadvantage so large that it means deciding to change careers.

Think really hard if you want all the software in the world to be written by the people who would never come to Bluesky. Because the bullying on here could only achieve that at most. It can only make everything worse.