Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I'm asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
I went through a phase where I was doing a lot of vibe coding. I thought that I was smart enough to be working around the known problems and limitations of it. I was not. Pretty much everything "I" had made turned into an unmaintainable nightmare once it passed a certain level of complexity, and in practice when you're trying your best to actually make vibe coding work on a project larger than one file you spend so much time reviewing every little thing, rewording your specs etc that you might as well just write the fukken code yourself.
So I deleted all of those projects, and now I use AI for brainstorming (I talk into speech to text, usually while doing something else, then give the text to an LLM and say "organize these ramblings into a design document for me") and simple specific task automation ("comment my code" and "update my readme"). I figure the one thing LLMs are demonstrably good at is summarization, so pretty much everything I ask them to do is along those lines.
That said, if I could press a button that would make all of the ai companies crash and burn but it meant that I would have to back to doing those things manually, I would press it in a heartbeat. The externalities that the tech world is forcing into all of us for this thing that makes summarizing documents more convenient are way too much.
As for anything else, generative images or video or whatever... I just have zero interest in making or consuming them. Sure it hits my feed like it does for everyone else but I'd say at this point my reaction is about 1/10 "haha" and 9/10 "ugh" when I see them. There was already so much human made art out there that you could be looking at new things all day every day and you wouldn't be able to keep up.
edit: also, regarding the coding: if your goal isn't "learn to code" but rather "make a quick python script that needs to work exactly one time", then vibe coding can be a valid use case. but if you are trying to learn then prompting cannot teach you in the same way that you will never learn to make high quality digital art by prompting for image generator.