Gary Strydom's Tiny CarLLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.
It's the same as AI "authors" and "artists". They don't want to make things. They want a get rich quick scheme, or the cachet of being an author or being an artist without actually ever having done anything. The hyperrealistic version of the Foucauldian author-function. Utterly horrific
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@decay they want the benefits of appearing to have done work without the actual doing of the work, and i think there's more than a few words to describe that kind of person
Nick Dumas@atax1a @decay while I think you're right on the whole, I think it is important to let this, at least sometimes, also be a conversation about how accessible some of these things are, mostly by virtue of the cost in time or money: editing of video music text etc, playing instruments, drawing and painting, etc.
Which is to say it is an even more egregious crime against humanity when this money could've been invested into arts programs, community centers, labor unions, etc.
@nickdumas @atax1a well yes. As always, the problem is capitalism per se
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115970686853439338
@nickdumas @decay with a note that the sweariness is not directed at you, but at the purveyors:
stony kark
Erik Johnson@decay Barring any of the obvious discussions about ethics, labor displacement and weakening of worker power…
SaaS/PaaS tools controlled by multibillion dollar corporations and a handful of delusional investors, and are seats of centralized power that will rug pull you as soon as they have market dominance and have established sufficient barriers to entry to prevent competition are democratized?
How the fuck are any of these tools democratized any more than Adobe Creative Cloud? Or Microsoft Office?
these people are so exhausting.
fool
tusharhero@decay bottled water democratised water
Moppiwhen "your" Code (Made from the AI) Throws an error ... YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIXIT
Teoh Han Hui
Tzimisce Flesh
Justin
benny
Aiono@decay this is very true. People who started learning coding with LLMs don't know how to write code manually. Because they never struggled and put in the time to internalize the syntax or the intuition about the program behavior. It's like reading exercise solutions instead of solving the exercises. This is not learning, it's just faking it.
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@decay "LLMs democratize creativity, btw democracy doesn't work and we should fix it so only rich property owners can vote or hold office"
Stefan Müller 
Wait! You learn something: not to use your brain. Humanity is doomed.
Furao Sentu@decay reformulate. What you write is false. I have made things with the help of LLMs that I would have otherwise simply not made at all. I can't code, an LLM can't code, but who's code runs after sifting through the vastness of the Internet after 30 seconds? Certainly not mine. Not the LLMs, either, but the necessary tweaks are minimal.
luddite 🇵🇸 computer@decay the people who use LLMs don't care about programming, they care about the resulting software. So they would claim that it "democratizes creating software" or something.
tumdum@decay @ireneista I suspect that for significant portion of world population paying 20€ a month is simply impossible.
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