Beej 💾My turn to pen a blog about my discomfort with AI-generated code. I feel this is a measured take, and addresses something I haven't commonly seen mentioned elsewhere. And it helped me process a bunch. 🙂
"On Making"
IrgndSonDepp@beejjorgensen So, I'm going to publicly embarrass myself, but...I kinda liked the Sci-Fi story.
Yes, the names were a bit weird, but I was ready to give it a shot. Not least of all, because I thought "my buddy Beej is trustworthy and I could do worse than throw money his way."
I was totally ready to buy the book...until I noticed that I had absolutely, 100% missed the point. Or fallen for a nefarious trap. 😅
And that's the other side of things. Not only do you feel like you haven't made anything -- I feel like I've been cheated. I wasted my time reading the few paragraphs. And I feel stupid for liking something, that even the author didn't like enough to put real thought and effort into.
(Just so we're clear, that's not a shot against you. I realize you were making a point. Well...I realize now. 😉)
I'm pretty far along the "fuck gen A.I."-axis, so I can't speak for everybody out there. But I really want the creative things I read, watch and use to be hand-made and I will go out of my way to keep it that way.
And that is why what I wrote above is relevant. Whenever I invest time into something that turns out to be generated by an LLM, I can't help but feel disappointed. And at the rate new generated things are thrown out, some of my days are blow after blow, defeat after defeat, as I struggle through all the slop to find that one thing with a soul.
Yes, the names were a bit weird, but I was ready to give it a shot. Not least of all, because I thought "my buddy Beej is trustworthy and I could do worse than throw money his way."
I was totally ready to buy the book...until I noticed that I had absolutely, 100% missed the point. Or fallen for a nefarious trap. 😅
And that's the other side of things. Not only do you feel like you haven't made anything -- I feel like I've been cheated. I wasted my time reading the few paragraphs. And I feel stupid for liking something, that even the author didn't like enough to put real thought and effort into.
(Just so we're clear, that's not a shot against you. I realize you were making a point. Well...I realize now. 😉)
I'm pretty far along the "fuck gen A.I."-axis, so I can't speak for everybody out there. But I really want the creative things I read, watch and use to be hand-made and I will go out of my way to keep it that way.
And that is why what I wrote above is relevant. Whenever I invest time into something that turns out to be generated by an LLM, I can't help but feel disappointed. And at the rate new generated things are thrown out, some of my days are blow after blow, defeat after defeat, as I struggle through all the slop to find that one thing with a soul.
@irgndsondepp I totally agree. I was partway through a conversation with the receptionist at my dentist before I realized it was a bot. It's hard to understate how much I feel gutted when that happens! I was having a conversation with a real person a second before, and then to realize I was being sincere with a pile of wires and plastic... Just such a let-down.