Mastodawn

I understand the antipathy towards AI, and even the “Luddites were right”, but there are large numbers of people on here that deny AI code assistants/agents provide any value at all. I attest from experience that they can comfortably speed up work by a factor of 4 when used properly. I get “there is literally no evidence” and a block.

A weaver can see clearly that the weaving machine is quicker even if they have to redo some work. Have a stance but don’t deny reality. #ai 1/2

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Mark

Being opposed morally to AI is all too often conjoined with the position that AI is snake oil and does not work. People want to cloth a moral statement like “AI is awful for humanity” in a scientific statement like “AI just produces slop code that must be reworked (and therefore reduces productivity)”. Then there are these disparaging middle statements like “AI is not intelligent/does not code it just copies and plagiarises” which is a moral statement intended to have scientific heft.
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