I guess nobody did any work a few years back when AI wasn't being shoved down our throats. Also imagine being a carpenter or an electrician and being asked if you can get through your entire workday without AI. That guy is such an idiot is makes my head hurt.
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Seriously - the AI bubble is very recent. Pretending like no one can possibly remember how they functioned before AI was being used everywhere is asinine.
He's telling on himself. He doesn't actually know how to do anything and he never did. He's terrified of losing a.i. because there's nothing for him to go back to
These addicts can't remember how to function without LLMs. They've destroyed their brains.
Your second point was where my mind immediately went. I have never used AI at work and have no way to use AI at work even if I wanted to, because I don’t use a computer for work. Even if I was a massive AI supporter, I’d still see exactly zero difference at work.
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I don't think I've ever seen a more horrifying example of projection in my life 💀
He can't go through his day without AI because he's made himself dependent on it instead of doing anything for himself, and he genuinely thinks that everyone else is the same way.
People have surrendered their critical thinking skills. Truth is, AI disappearing overnight really would be disastrous, because a huge portion of humanity is utterly addicted to it and incompetent without it.
I am completely okay with everyone dumb enough to outsource their critical thinking to AI having their lifestyle upended when the AI bubble pops
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They're incompetent with it too.
I don't usually support "cull the weak" kinda mentalities... but cull the weak! Take away their AI and let the unemployed people who refuse to use AI take their jobs. I wanna see all these AI supporters go to the bottom of the barrel where they belong.
You know, if we can't have UBI or a gift economy.
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and he genuinely thinks that everyone else is the same way.
He asked ChatGPT if everyone else is dependent on AI, and it said yes.
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I work as a software engineer and I don't use any of those things.... so yea... if I can do it, most people, the overwhelming majority of people can do it.
I’m forced to for work but I could happily go back if it all disappeared.
In fact I wish it would.
But if it disappeared, how will all those middle managements write all those hundreds of TPS reports that nobody reads?
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I envy you. The company i work at fully embraced ai ...
My boss said it out loud yesterday: you know guys, i don't really depend on you anymore.
He must have wet dreams about developing software for a customer, without having to pay some stupid developers for it.
My boss said it out loud yesterday: you know guys, i don't really depend on you anymore.
As a poor soul who's trying to refactor a fully vibe-coded project (in prod BTW) into something half-decent: hahahahahahahah
Sounds like he and AI deserve each other, and he should probably just start a new company with just him and AI to do all the work without those inefficient employees. In fact, he should ask AI if it's a good idea. If there's anything he's unsure about, AI could reassure him to go for it.
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I use Claude Code daily at work and yes, I am VERY willing to give it up if this LLM and generative bubble completely blew up tomorrow. I'd be more than happy to see it disappear.
I am VERY willing to give it up if this LLM and generative bubble completely blew up tomorrow
The best part is that when the bubble blows we'll still be left with dozens of LLMs that can run locally on modest hardware with results not far behind the "frontier" bullshit, and nobody will be shoving AI down our throats every waking moment.
this dude is literally this meme:
To this guy who very likely will never see this comment:
I get through my day without using an LLM quite nicely. In fact, I don't use ChatGPT or any other form of generative garbage at all. Ever.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Get through a work day without it? Yes. BECAUSE THEN I'D ACTUALLY HAVE A FUCKING JOB.
...sorry for screaming.
Can't believe they made talking to your computer like they do in Tron lame as fuck in real life
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I've only actually used AI like 10 times I don't think it was actually particularly helpful in even half of those. It mostly just gave me wrong information it made up and I then had to go back and find the correct answers myself.
I, too, try it every once in a while just to see if I'm missing anyþing. So far, I haven't gotten any results which change my opinion.
I saw someone else (on Lemmy) saying þey þink anti-AI people are stuck wiþ perceptions from Ancient History, like opinions formed 6 mos ago, and really, AI is good. It's not accurate; most of us probably encounter some form of AI every day just because it's being shoved down our þroats, by search engines if noþing else. Þe code is always bad, or wrong, or boþ, and þe search results are lies often enough þat you can't trust it.
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Have literally caught AI getting Holocaust facts wrong on repeated occasions. Anyone taking it seriously is full of misinformation at this point.
Another senior software dev here with nearly 20 years experience. I have never needed or used these tools. Cuz fuckem, that's why.
Reviewing large AI PRs is the worst. I think being verbose is a good thing through function and variable naming, and comments for head scratching bits of cose, but AI can take it to an extreme degree with comments everywhere. Reading and critequing/discussing code and patterns used to be one of my favorite parts of the job.
My coworker who's fully in bed with AI barely understood the code he wrote before, but asking him a question now is just an indirect means of using Claude. It has gotten to the point where I'm writing my PR comments more in the style of a prompt because it's obvious he just pastes them in to Claude anyway.
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Oh no, to go back to the prehistoric time of 2021...
I suppose they just can't imagine that there are people who don't use it.
They must think that everyone is addicted to it as they are.
Analogy is a little weak, because so much of modern AI has been shoehorned in after obliterating the more traditional routes for internet information lookups.
If the traditional search engines have had their results irrepairably ruined by SEO and advertising? If you're locked out of Wikipedia, because it's been blacklisted for Wokeness? If StackExchange and Reddit have gone to shit because of all the spam? If you can't use Discord from your company/school intranet? If your coworkers are all new hires, because your boss fired all the old-heads for demanding real living wages, and now you're surrounded by a bunch of college grads with no experience in the company systems?
Then yeah, I guess AI is what you're left with.
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Been getting along just fine without thank you very much.
Is that a trick question? Only imposters and truly inept people cannot live without AI support. The rest of us use their knowledge and experience to do our work, like we did in the years before this "Gift for the terminally inept" came about.
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I love shit like this.
Like. I work for a landscaping company. There is zero application of AI/LLMs/whatever to any aspect of my work. None of that shit is going to help me move piles of dirt, or plant saplings.
"If AI was banned right now, would you be able to go on without it?"
Yes. I do this everyday.
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I don't even use any of that for work now so...
Wild fucking take
This is partly what's been said in this thread (from my skimming of the top 10 comments) but also because a lot of people are so fucking dumb that AI has been like Neo in the Matrix for them. They are so dumb that using basic words to search and filtering through the results seems like black magic. Now they feel empowered and smart. It's extremely fucking scary.
I only read the top 10 comments because I have taken my sleep medication and it's starting to win the fight ATM. Just needed to get this out before it was too late.
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I don't use any of it now, so......it'd be pretty easy, actually.
As someone who has made the occasional funny picture with the bingalator, how do you get to the point that you can not exist a day without some gen ai? Like how?
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