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.

This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago

It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"

It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology

It's genius #satire

credit:

https://www.youtube.com/@Forbrukerr%C3%A5detNorge

#Enshittification #Norge #Norway

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

More of my work for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

Me: I was given the Leslie Nielsen Award at school.

Them: What’s that?

Me: It’s a big building where they teach children, but that’s not important right now.

Wife: Where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

2 of the 11 Weird Al songs I downloaded were actually Weird Al., and the longest download time for one single song was 174 hours, it turned out to be a BonziBuddy.exe file. 😁

#Limewirewrapped #2007Wraoped #memes #funny #oldschool #LimeWireGeneration #music #backintheday #wrapped