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Cake day: August 8th, 2026
  • RacketMan@programming.devtoAI Coding@programming.dev•Getting Freaky in the Age of AIEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Very welcome! I think AI is something we need to talk about rather than just hate, because it’s a tool that isn’t going away. We have to adapt. People who don’t are going to find themselves behind the curve.

    I think the positives of AI outweigh the negatives, and there are plenty of negatives. But I’d much rather see well-reasoned criticism than another boring comment from someone screaming, “Slop!”

    Screaming isn’t going to stop it. It’ss going to keep advancing whether Lemmy likes it or not.

    There’s an entire generation of kids in their early teens right now, sitting in their bedrooms, experimenting with AI and learning how to use it. Just like the earlier generations of kids who taught themselves programming, computers, and hacking the same way by fucking around with games and shit.

    In around eight years, a lot of those kids will be entering the workforce with years of AI experience already behind them.

    They’re going to look at today’s “AI is slop!” crowd with the same amusement people now reserve for boomers yelling, “Get off my lawn!” lol

    It feel’s like I’m watching Lemmy become Boomers in real time. Boomer Lemmys scared and angry about new technology. It’s sooo weird to see a tech crowd be so resistant to tech. Most of these guys here would have been all over AI if it would have came out in their teens.

  • RacketMan@programming.devtoAI Coding@programming.dev•Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usageEnglish
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    20 days ago

    The general consensus seems to be that the knowledge that these communities work in is hard-fought and the use of LLMs is a form of missing the point entirely. In these communities (keep in mind that there is an implicit “not all…” throughout) the process of mastering a difficult field itself is the product, and something that runs is generally a nice-to-have.

    This has always been my suspicion about why Lemmy hates AI so much. It’s like most seem to be angry that the knowledge that they had to “work for” is now freely available to the masses.

    Kind like they don’t want the “normies” to see what’s going on behind the curtain. Obviously not everyone who is against AI thinks like this, but I sure do get the feeling that most of the haters I come across feel that way.

    Great article the really matches up about how I feel about all the anger I see about the subject.