Fair points, but I still take cleaning up someone’s own bad Node.JS code over cleaning up LLM Node.JS slop because the optimist in me hopes that the human who wrote bad code can at least learn something and become better over time. After all we all have started with writing garbage, I know that I have.
On the other hand, I guess I should find a job where I don’t have to touch web development with a ten-foot pole because it’s probably not getting better.
Our company is currently looking for a new programmer and we've interviewed a few so far. I don't want to generalize but it really seems that a non-negligible part of the younger ones at least tries to use LLMs to make up for a lack or experience, and that really shows.
I normally don't like doing programming challenges during an interview because they have little to no real-world connections, but I've been throwing small questions around lately just to see what people do, and how they approach them, and there's a subset of people who will say, "I would ask ChatGPT now" in those scenarios.
I haven't met a vibe-coder in real life yet, but I'm afraid it's only a matter of time.
I am fairly certain that their stupid AI stance at least played a role. I’m part of a largish writing community, where at least several hundred people did NaNo each year, a good part of them donated too. Last year, no one partook, instead we did our own internal thing.
If this happened across other communities too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did, they must have felt it financially.
Can confirm. Our C-suite approved a large amount of money last year so we could implement chatbots into all kinds of processes. Now that the chatbots have been implemented, no one is using them past the initial trying-out phase and questionable image generation tasks for presentations. Even the suits themselves don’t.
I told them this would happen. They didn’t listen.
I hate it so fucking much that a non-trivial number of FOSS communities have become hostile nazi bars in the last years (or maybe they always have been and I've just not noticed it before).
Why would anyone shit on Lina of all people? She's such a nice and wholesome person and her work is exceptional.
Fuck these asshats.
Also, from that one Lemmy thread:
What fascists are ruining OSS?
LOL! Lmao even. Just input Linux into the YT search bar and you have roughly a 50% chance of getting fascist content.
If I had to judge Razer’s software quality based on what little I know about them, I’d probably raise my eyebrows because they ship some insane 600+ MiB driver with a significant memory impact with their mice and keyboards that’s needed to use basic features like DPI buttons and LED settings, when the alternative to that is a 900 kiB open source driver which provides essentially the same functionality.
And now their answer to optimization is to staple a chatbot onto their software? I think I pass.
Thinking that trying to sell LLMs as a creative tool at this point into the bubble will not create backlash is just delusional, lmao.
Every time I hear Bengio (or Hinton or LeCun for that matter) open their mouths at this point, this tweet by Timnit Gebru comes to mind again.
This field is such junk pseudo science at this point. Which other field has its equivalent of Nobel prize winners going absolutely bonkers? Between [LeCun] and Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (his brother has the complete opposite view at least) clown town is getting crowded.
Still waiting for the VC billions for my startup Gatta.ca that will sell refrigerated high-IQ piss to the rubes so they can pass Google interviews.
What the fuck did I just read? I had to double check the year.
I thought even the grifters had finally admitted that upscaling the chatbots won’t lead to anything, and suddenly we’re back at spontaneous emergence of intelligence if we just throw enough shit at the wall?
He highlighted the need for Google’s employees to use more of its A.I. for coding, saying the A.I.’s improving itself would lead to A.G.I.
What even is this? Hitting autocomplete on every word hoping it vomits out AGI by accident? That is certainly an opinion.
Did Sergey hit his head or something? He can’t seriously expert anyone to believe this at this point.
Christ on a stick, they found a way to remove the black person from the “I’m not racist, one of my friends is black” dogwhistle.
I fucking can’t.