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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rivten

@matt i'd argue that it seems to work very well on the surface. But i'd like to see evidence that it works on the long term. Like if it produces code twice as fast but requires twice as much maintenance time because it breaks every now and then. But i don't ever argue that it's super good at understanding human language and producing something of _immediate_ value.