There's a great deal of opposition to #AI here on the Fediverse, to the point that there are people who don't want to run software that has had any contact with #LLMs. (For a rational set of arguments, see https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#why-not-llms .)

In the business of persuading people, you learn that it's important to understand not just what they believe, but *why* those beliefs appeal to them, what is the underlying emotional attachment. In this matter, I suspect it's because programmers fear job loss.

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It appears to me that LLMs are already capable of taking the jobs of many computer programmers — if I were in that line of business, I'd be very concerned, possibly even hostile, and the reasons to oppose AI would seem compelling.

I don't think the results of this poll provide much evidence either for or against my theory.

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