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Anybody who, during a trillion dollar financial bubble coupled with an equally seismic political movement, routinely picks up the plausible-sounding positive "AI facts" published by people who stand to gain from either bubble or movement is doing both us and themselves a disservice
Even if you truly believe your positive opinion on "AI" is warranted, giving these ideas a platform is equivalent to hyping up sub-prime mortgages in late 2007. It's fundamentally irresponsible even if you were right
It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms
Ever had to work with someone who spewed corporate bullshit all day long, yup, that person. Science proved what we all knew all along: they are bad at practical decision making and analytical thinking. Good at corporate BS, bad at actual work.
No wonder I have a hard time dealing with those. Analytical thinking is basically what my brain was created to do.
Here goes the full article: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/people-who-love-corporate-bs-are-bad-at-their-jobs-new-cornell-research-confirms/91314405
Final report on last year's Iberian blackout has been released, including this very interesting diagram showing the contributing factors
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