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@[email protected] AI is tech cancer. Same as capitalism is societal cancer. It is a self propelling, accellerating decline machine.
In the case of AI, it speeds up climate catastrophe, supercharges exploitation for rare materials and will lead to mass deaths.
Capitalism is the same. It slows down inventions (who says different has no idea), increases waste, lowers empathy and will destroy this planet for us.
The planet doesnt give a rats ass about it but we will be dead.
Stop AI, stop capitalism.
@[email protected] sounds like a remix of the classic mechanic sign is in order:
Coding a solution: $100/hr
Coding a solution the way you tell me to: $250/hr
Coding a solution, fixing your vibe-coding mess: $500/hr
> complete loss of the ability to write code not controlled by the big players.
This reminds me of a toot I read a few weeks back that went along the lines of "vibe-coding is just coding with a subscription" -- very true.
@[email protected] it is, unfortunately
@[email protected] I've been thinking a lot about when the other shoe will drop: as useful as they are if used wisely, that type of tooling has pricing that feels wildly unsustainable and I expect there to be a steep rise in costs when VC money runs out that will highlight problematic dependencies on it.
But then again, a lot of people rolled with nigh-yearly media streaming cost increases. 🫠
@[email protected] In my 35 years of programming I saw a lot of programmers who were worse than AI. Just cut, paste and copy without bothering to read the tech specs - perpetuating bad processes, design, sloppy code and no peer review. Sure QA passed it, if they tested everything it would take forever and nothing would ever get released. Besides they would proudly announce they were not ‘technical people’ even though they were working on a technical solution. So it went into production and then a disaster occurred I was called in to fix. The goal no defects, which is possible, and to not get overwhelmed by defects that grind progress to a complete halt while fixing them. The problems would often have been found with careful peer review or mock testing, sometimes not. As is AI code is better than that but still needs to be carefully designed and reviewed to be certain it is functioning as required. (1/2)
@[email protected] Oh man, that’s a painful truth. These days, as long as it looks clean and CI doesn’t break, no one cares what’s under the hood — “some other team will fix it later.” Vibe-coding is the new cult, except instead of rituals we’ve got demos for management
@[email protected] I am so conceited that I am convinced I write better code than AI. There I said it :) Some colleagues say it’s because I’m too old to use AI.
@[email protected] The confident ignorants are telling us how things should be and how shitty the old ways are. I smell a backlash here at some point….