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So glad I'm a giant fuck up and went to school for coding but never did anything with it, at least I don't have to deal with finding a new job now because fuck all this AI shit.
(bring the pitchforks straight to my door)
He's kinda right. You would be a fool not to use AI now and again. No, I do NOT mean vibe coding, that's a fucking joke. ChatGPT (only one I've used) got me around a couple of sticky points when I was last scripting with PowerShell.
If you're stuck on a thing, why not see what an LLM will spit out? Last time I tried that it came with a non-working script, of course, but I picked some useful bits out and wrapped up quickly. Learned a new path I hadn't known or considered! From what I gathered reading Slack, our devs were using it in that manner. Nobody was dumb enough to trust the output, but again, AI can often get you over a hump.
All these stories we see about AI making coding take longer are about dipshits that lean on it too hard without actually knowing what they're doing, or naively trusting the output, or heaven-for-fucking-fend, both.
Yes, you still have to be able to actually write code. No, it won't replace developers. However, if AI can speed up a devs work, and it looks like it can, we'll need fewer devs.
I got stuck today in a part of my workplace where they have one of the local shitty radio stations playing, couldn't have my headphones in as people kept coming up and talking to me, and a shitty pop music mashup plays and it struck me, this is AI.
To clarify there is some shitty artist who gets the credit, but its just a selection of clips crossfaded and slightly processed into each other to make a new "song" out of a dozen pop songs. No actual creativity, no new material, just a quasi algorithmic blending of songs so that some soulless talentless grifter can claim they are an artist.
It gets deeper though, as mixed in there are songs that couldn't actually be performed live and acoustic due to the amount of sound engineering and vocal processing that went into the original versions of these songs.
The whole thing is turning into an Ouroboros, they have worked out how to make perfectly bland, meaningless music and now the snake is eating its tail as the industry consumes that slop to manufacture more slop.
Yet deeper, why does this beige bullshit get air time... Why its our old friend capitalist market forces, no one passionate about music wants to make this shit, its the people who want the fame and money and view music as the means to that end.
We know that AI makes people dumber, we know that it leads to the atrophy of skill and talent, and we know the only motivation for its use is capitalist. AI is pop music.
For what its worth I used italics on AI as I categorically refuse to believe this garbage is actually artificial intelligence. I am reasonably certain that actual artificial intelligence is the next fusion power, it's going to be "only a few years away" from being viable until well after I die, but its just too good a marketing term to leave it alone while we make do with these stunted chinese rooms.
Wow that rant blew up.
Ahh down votes in lieu of a substantive argument. Love it. If there wasn't a thread to pull on in all that word salad that would unravel the tapestry do you think maybe there's something to my take on this matter?
Anyway, don't care, this isn't Reddit so a downvote doesn't mean shit, and you at least read some of my post. To quote a somewhat famous Doctor "Don't you think she looks tired?"
Yep, autotune rappers have been pushed for years, and I always suspected it's to make the transition to AI music easier.
A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).
