Developer and refugee from Reddit

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Fight.

    The only thing - the only thing - these fucking oligarchs care about is money. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even their own lives. Money is all. So deny it to them.

    Buy used computer equipment. Never new. Stop using Google. Stop using Amazon. Definitely 100% stop using ChatGPT, Claude, or any other LLM. If you feel you have to use an AI model for some reason, save up and invest in a machine capable of running small models locally.

    Make the AI companies bleed. And at the same time, reward other companies that do the right thing. That want to sell something other than dumb terminals with AI wired in.

    I mean, fuck, there are plenty of companies that hate this shit too, because it destroys their businesses. Not their business models, their actual fucking businesses. No game developer or PC manufacturer is any happier with these AI monsters eating all the RAM than we are. They know if it persists it’ll put them out of business. It’s not like Dell or HP wanted to just stop being able to sell hardware.







  • I feel like I’m being gaslit as I keep reading that there are developers that feel they successfully offloaded the task of coding.

    That’s because you are being gaslit.

    The people making those claims are either a) not developers in the first place, with no awareness of just how shit the “products” they’re pushing are, b) paid astroturfers trying to prop up AI, or c) former actual developers who’ve become addicted to the speed that’s possible with AI who are downplaying how crappy their own code quality has become because they have no familiarity with their codebase anymore and have forgotten how to do so much as a for loop.

    All these people claiming 10x or 100x gains, and everything they’re making is garbage no one should or would touch with a ten-foot pole.