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I'm a big AI hater and just can't wait until this is all over. However, I've seen colleagues use the slop machine to just make shit they'd have skipped otherwise. Like using it to do TDD, provide the tests and then do the actual fun work - write proper good code.
But also if AI vanished tomorrow I'd be so happy and would not cry a single tear for it.
I'm not expecting AI to go away. I'm hoping the bubble pop will remove AI from a lot of markets that shouldn't be using it because it was shoehorned in so they could figure out uses for it. The test bench use makes sense to me. I can see how that could be beneficial to generate. In this case the people using those AI generated tests are still coding and their skills will remain sharp.
But it just doesn't work for a lot of stuff people are trying to use it for. Consumer tech is one of those things and I actively hate it.
Yeah for every 1 good use of ai that makes sense corpos are shoving it in 9 that don't make sense.
Ai can be useful and fine. But not so long as the corpos are shoving it into everything everywhere all of the time.
Word! LLMs can be a useful tool, but every tool has its purpose. A hammer is great for - well, hammering stuff. What corporate "leadership" has done - drunk on the koolaid given to them by hammer salesmen - was to mandate that everyone must do their work with a hammer now. And now they're bamboozled why so many people are getting hurt and inventory, somehow, always looks like it was smashed to bits. (Maybe we need to do just a smidge more hammering to get there?)