Some technologies are stupid and bad actually. The stuff people often say they're useful for that are on the scale of tasks that reasonable models could be built for are tasks that more efficient software already exists to solve. Like you don't need some nuts gpu full of conflict minerals and 500 joules of electricity to rename some variables or adjust the tone of an email. You should go and read the papers that describe how to build these things, make a small language model, see how stupid of an approach it is. They're dead simple just really big and inefficient.

Many software devs hate this shit. I am a dev and I hate this shit. It has absolutely destroyed the pipeline for training people in good ethics and practice and is actively destroying what little good practice we have managed to cultivate in software design. This is decent reading: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/ and so is this: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

also go and read the transcripts of microsoft standing in front of the EU parliament talking about how we need to blow past climate goals for AI. This isn't some stupid bougie concern, millions of people are going to die.

If AI was sentient do you think that would make it OK to steal collective productivity (i.e. humans learning from textbooks) to become a slop machine (i.e. humans making video games)

I'm in the "professional with a powerful new tool" category, using copilot in an IDE on a work project for the first time.

Been messing with code for over 10 years but never in a professional capacity and it's been helpful for quickly getting me up to speed with unfamiliar libraries or languages, or HW interfaces. I'd be fine giving it up tho.

It's an undeniably powerful tool with genuinely impressive capabilities. Because of this I'm convinced that a zero tolerance policy is a losing proposition long term in terms of popular support.

But it's also an open question what the real cost of operating these things is in the long term is. We're still in the bubble with huge amounts of capital going around to make these available for use below their actual cost. It's likely many would not fine it worth using if presented with its unsubsidized cost.