Thanks so much for that very detailed wall of text, but you lost me at Marxist. I’m sorry, I’m really not read up on political history and ideology and at this point in life I have so much other shit to think about than educating myself around those things.
But I thank you for the effort you put into that response. ❤️ I appreciate you.
I know the tech job market is tough, but it’s not universally like that. My comment was not disingenuous, in my opinion. But we may have different perspectives and that’s fine. It’s just not hard for me to find a workplace where they aren’t forcing AI down my throat.
I don’t know that “most tech companies” are forcing their devs to use AI, no. Maybe the big ones? I don’t know of any in my local area who would be so stupid. All I hear right now with the latest talk around me is how do we use AI responsibly. And how do we utilize it for the right problems and the right reasons.
It might be like this in America where it’s all about growth growth growth and where everyone is sorta struggling right now, but in my part of the world we’re chilling a bit just yet. I know many of my peers who are hard into AI, but all I hear is that it’s mediocre at best at solving the hard problems.
So I’m sitting tight. I don’t need AI for my work at all, as a web dev. I know what I’m doing and I enjoy my craft and my deliveries have high quality and low code mass. I’m not interested in letting a robot do my work for me and I be the code reviewer for the rest of my career (the boring part). Hell to the naw. I want to do the fun stuff, be creative and solve problems. That’s why I became a programmer in the first place.
An AI is not as up-to-date on the current web standards as I am anyway. Most of the code it’s spitting out is legacy garbage because that’s what it’s been trained on. The web platform moves too fast.
Either way, ethically, I wouldn’t use anything that’s hosted on an AI data center.
No sweat on the correction. I’ll leave it so people can follow.
Oh, no, that wasn’t directed at you. I didn’t see you say “whom” anywhere. I don’t think I replied to you. 🤔
Hexbear and ml
Those sound like instances, not communities. I’m assuming you meet all these toxic people in political communities?
I’ll be honest, I only barely understand what a tankie is in modern terms. But from what I gather, I don’t think most people are actually tankies. I believe you.
What do you mean “and?”?
I didn’t say you said it was impossible lol. You said good luck, implying it’s hard, I said I found one immediately because I’m working at one. And I know several other companies and workplaces, too.
It’s not hard. Take the L.
Yes, regularly. Company is based in Northern Scandinavia, but German-owned.
Open source models aren’t really used in AI as a service though, are they?
What communities are these? Sounds like these are some toxic and/political communities. I try to stay away from political discourse online.
(Btw, that’s not how you use “whom” 🫣❤️, sorry for pointing it out)
I definitely felt like I was in a community where I belonged.
the places I like most are usually defederated from the larger communities.
I dunno bout y’all but 🚩
How tf do y’all keep such close tabs on who the people are in charge of instances and the fact that they use alts from other instances to troll people and all this other petty gossip bullshit? How do you seriously keep up to speed with that nonsense?
I just scroll and comment, bro. 🤷♂️
Uh, I’m working at one.
That was quick.
In my opinion, the ethics are clear problems. There are way too many ethical issues for me to even consider using AI right now. I would never have a clear conscience using AI. Using AI as a service responsibly is impossible right now IMO.
Ah yes, those god awful smells that your brain tells you are nice because of nostalgia. So funny how the brain works. 🥰
Although I used to like the smell of car exhaust when I was a kid, without nostalgia. That’s a bit weird.
Happy that it’s working out for at least a small margin of people. 👍
There’s always the many ethical aspects as well, of course.
But on the other hand, you did specify the US, where it’s pretty important to take action right now.
Sooo, I retract everything. 😂
Fair enough, that does sound pretty douchey. 👍
Code quality? Maintainability down the line? Numbers for those aspects yet?
My mind is stretching itself smooth wondering what the powder is made of.