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They don't even understand their job
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Why is it so hard for these idiots to grasp that the process of actually making something yourself IS THE FULFILLING PART.
It's not the end result that is where the fulfillment comes in when I'm programming something or writing something; it's the knowledge that I MADE IT and as a result I have now accomplished something. If you tell an LLM what to do and they do it, you haven't accomplished anything. You haven't earned it and you have no right to be proud of it.
Hell, if an LLM came about that could mow my damn lawn so that I could spend more time writing and programming and 3D modelling and video editing, etc... than hot damn...THAT would be something I would pay for.
At what point did the adage "It's not the destination, it's the journey" cease being meaningful to these morons?
They're morally bankrupt and always seek shortcuts.
They've never struggled or worked for anything in their lives, and don't intend to start now.
I'm not sure it's so black and white, LLMs (even frontier ones) are total spaghetti merchants if you let them anywhere near the architecture but I get zero fulfillment from manually solving merge conflicts, setting up someone's fragile idea of a config, or other tedious stuff like that.
I do dislike how many people seem to want the profession to change into being the meatshield between Claude and prod though.
For sure. And it's tedious crap like that where A.I can have a limited scope of usefullness. I WANT A.I. to handle all the boring shit so that I can get on with doing the creative side of programming. But CEO's want it exactly the other way around. Rather than A.I. being your assistant, you become its assistant, it's proof reader.
I will happily plug a snippet of code into an AI if it's not working and I need a second set of eyes on it to see where I missed a goddamned colon. But that's as far as it ever should go. I don't want it writing code for me, but it can make a pretty good proof-reader so that I can solve an issue and get on with writing faster.
Yeah it's like that recent adage isn't it: I want AI to automate all my drudgery so I can spend more time being creative, but Silicon Valley is automating all my creativity so I can spend more time doing drudgery.
AI should do tedious tasks for creative people, not creative tasks for tedious people.
I've been saying for a while that having AI make art for you is basically the same as a commission. When you commission a painting, you describe what you want, someone else paints it for you and gives it to you for money. Same sort of thing here, except shittier because no artist gets paid. But the same end result - you might own the end result, but you didn't create it.
100% I believe the exact same thing. If a person commisions a painting, but the painter is a computer, it doesn't transfer the title of "artist" onto the person who commisioned the painting.
They want credit for their "creative work" when really all they are is a middle manager with no actual employees.
How long do those middle-management chucklefucks think it'll be before CEO's realize that they can just ask the computer themselves?
Philosophy doesn't help meet deadlines.
Than it's the deadlines that need to change. I'll happily die on that hill.
Quality over Quantity will always win the race in the long run. Ever tightening deadlines is responsible for the enshittification of everything.
Good luck convincing clients
And that's precisely the over-arching problem in the modern world.
On one hand I agree, on the other hand try making that argument to management at the majority of software firms and see where it gets you. There's little commercial incentive for 'artisinal code' outside of niche sectors in my view, and commercial incentives overrule all else at the end of the day. I don't think this is morally right but this is the wider problem of which overreliance on AI is merely one expression I think
Oh absolutely. Corporations shoving AI down our throats is a symptom of a much wider problem for sure. It's just the latest tool in the age old mantra that states that "In order to increase profit, you can either make more or spend less."
Somewhere in around the 80's, corporations realized that labour was their largest expense, and from that point on, employees became just another line item on a spreadsheet. Something to be managed and minimized as much as possible. They try to squeeze that labour metric down as much as possible to achieve more profit without having to increase revenue at the same time, thereby making the stock price rise.
Humans stopped being an equation in business a long long time ago.