Freya Holmér

⚠️ NEW CAT ALERT her name is SISTER and she's currently 8 months into learning how planet earth works!!

also why would you automate one of the most fun and invigorating phases of development?

normally I wouldn't clarify that no children were kicked in the face in the making of my projects but in a society normalizing kicking children in the face ig I'll label too

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I think my depression has caught up to me, that overwhelming feeling of hopelessness is back

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

it's been useful to have AI review my code snippets and suggest stuff I might've missed, like "there's an API call called X so you don't need to manually do Y here" because in that case, I still write all my code, and the only purpose of the AI is to improve my craft, rather than substitute it

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

I've had someone unironically argue that it's actually good if all these jobs are lost to AI because it's actually better when people make things as a hobby instead of "selling out"

everyone around me told me I was crazy for wanting a carpeted floor, especially living with three (now four) cats. (basically nobody in sweden has carpeted floors anymore) I have 0 regrets!! extremely worth it, they all play and run around so much more than they ever did on hardwood floor ❤️

I've been wanting to put my whole position on AI in one place so that I can link it but I'm kinda struggling to find a good structure flowcharts are too sprawling, but it's nice to have a hierarchy! text is too linear, but it's a lot more readable!

I think framing it in the Q&A format, ie: writing out my responses to common AI questions, is probably the most useful format for others to read, because it will likely help people develop their own thoughts and bring some of those arguments with them

I've been wanting to put my whole position on AI in one place so that I can link it but I'm kinda struggling to find a good structure flowcharts are too sprawling, but it's nice to have a hierarchy! text is too linear, but it's a lot more readable!

I'm also not sure if it should have like, a narrative thread like an essay, or if it should be a very distilled prop logic hierarchy of my exact position and why, or if it should be a list of common pro-AI arguments along with my response to each of them it's hard to do all three at the same time

3am mental connection: - fast travel in video games - creating things with AI - exclusively going outside for errands or to get somewhere else all of these reduce opportunities for serendipity, they prevent you from enjoying the now by recontextualizing your surroundings as a means to an end

one of my big realizations was when I noticed how differently I behave at home vs how I behave when traveling when I travel, I would have moments where I *plan* to just casually meander about and explore it made me wonder - why do I never do this at home?

it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

"oh we don't teach humans anymore, we write skills.md files to teach the robots" oh it's a valid URL too it seems, sure, why not

it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

my entire life trajectory was oriented towards "being good at things", I sacrificed quite a lot to get where I am today, and now society has deemed expertise not very valuable anymore and for what little remains, AI/people using AI will siphon it out of you the very moment they smell it in the air