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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joep schuurkes

@matt GenAI is incredibly young. The fact that we're having discussions about if "it works", shows the software development industry doesn't think beyond the time frame of the proverbial goldfish's memory.

We're celebrating the disappearance of junior devs, the validity of lines of code as a metric, and the viability of reviewing instead of writing code and we call that: "it works!"