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[–] 24 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Why does everyone who starts using AI always devolve into posting like this?

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  • [–] 21 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    it's crack for burnt out programmers who don't enjoy the process of creating software anymore. You get to have results without putting in any work of your own. In corpo-world where everything is a metric, outputting massive amounts of code quickly and effortlessly is a great thing. For the others who actually enjoy making something it's a useless tool.

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  • [–] 2 points 51 minutes ago

    That's pretty accurate, but only the good case. Burnt out programmers still have some kind of system understanding and some kind of leftover appreciation for good software architecture, they've just been battered down by years of the stupidest requirements, deadlines and incompetent management. Even with AI they usually keep a hand on the wheel and aren't particularly set on always using it for everything. Maybe they'll even start advocating for AI because they can't imagine anyone using it in a different way than they do.
    The bad case is all the people who never cared about anything to begin with and aren't any more emotionally attached to writing code than they are to filling out an excel sheet. That's the kind of people that will absolutely derail an entire project by vibecoding it into the ground and then arguing for every single thing Claude changed. "You have to be able to understand/code this yourself" does stop them dead and they will piss and shit themselves because they can't do anything and aren't used to feeling stupid.Tbh I mostly like no-AI policies because it's funny to see those meltdowns 🤷

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