Mastodawn

Question for people who choose not to use generative AI for ethical reasons: Do you make that choice despite accepting the growing evidence that it works (at least for some tasks, e.g. coding agents working on some kinds of software)? Or do you reject it because of the ethical problems *and* a belief that it doesn't actually work?

I'm thinking that principled rejection of generative AI might have to be the former kind, *despite* evidence that it works.

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Thomas Wilburn

@matt I don't think it's as effective as its boosters claim (I suspect we're going to see--or are already seeing--a real decline in software quality as we start seeing its code in production), but even if it worked perfectly I wouldn't use it. I have enough regrets about the externalities of tech and who bears them, I don't need more of that on my conscience.