nihildev.bsky.social
Banking bro turned developer (Next.js/SQL/TailwindCSS). Humanist, more or less.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not wallowing in misery here. I’ve taught myself to code and am starting to gain freelance traction there and will be pushing to enter that career field. And not even contradicting you, just more agreeing the situation is bleak I guess?
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I work in a physically demanding line of work. Most people I work with have nothing for retirement because we can’t. In fact, quite a few are “retired.”
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I’ve never made enough to really worry about this except for a handful of times in my life. I’ve just assumed I’m never going to retire and will likely die while working. I can save for retirement, or I can have a meal.
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…have they studied history? Once a government gets to this point its resist or be run over. Violence IS an answer sometimes.
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I mean, my mentality has set me behind on a lot of adaptation, but also limits me. When learning new stuff that isn’t 100% browser supported, I’m having to rely on fallbacks which leads to further “aha” moments.
So yeah, I need to get over the browser support block and just learn.
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Pointing out “they’re gonna do it anyway” is only legitimate if you’re then bringing up a “and when they do, we do this.”
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And the dip could just be rate of growth. The rate of growth has probably slowed down, but my guess is engagement has ticked up.
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And what angers me about this more than anything else is I’m really bad about adding alt text on my images here. But I’ve gotten better and now catch it before posting.
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The only time it’s acceptable to leave it blank is if the image has NOTHING to do with the content and is purely decorative. Then you leave it alt=“” so the screen reader knows to skip (think - SVG icon that gives visual cue for use)
And in a social media context, that’s rarely ever the case.
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And of course sometimes you’ll feed it a 15 line block of code in React trying to figure out why it’s not working and it’ll come back and say “oh, because you’re using state, which is experimental! Use Class!”
So yeah, I’m not worried about it taking my job.
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And this is what gets lost in the whole debate. Either you’re evil for using AI or you’re evil for being against it. Both positions are stupid. AI is a useful tool in some scenarios, and a waste in most others (at the moment). Cut through the marketing bullshit, it’s a tool, not a savior.
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So yes, AI can “work,” but only if you’ve already put in the effort to be able to do it without AI. I can build a full stack website in 6-10 months without AI. With AI that shortens to 3-6 months with no loss in quality. But it’s only because I know the code, I know what AI can and can’t do, etc.
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And they’re terrible for art or writing beyond a placeholder that’ll stay internal and never see the light of day. They’re GREAT for writing if you have ADHD and already have a system in place for organizing your writing - then AI becomes beneficial, after you’ve done the work.
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LLMs, at this point, are good tools in the hands of experts who don’t need it but use it for efficiency. They’re not great for general consumption. They suck up energy and water as well, but that speaks more to our energy infrastructure than anything else.
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The medical breakthroughs and so on, when you dig into it, AI was used for pattern matching. AI is PERFECT for that. But it was humans having to feed it, set the parameters, etc. In other words, no different than any tool.
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If I have a unique pattern or design, AI becomes useless. Now, it can take my code and enhance it and fix it, but it can’t generate my code from scratch.
In fact, the only successful use cases of AI tend to come from experts already knowledgeable in the field using AI as an assistant.
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Another AI-project I corrected had a server functions file over over 1,000 lines of code. I broke it up into 28 files and reduced the code bloat because every single function used some repeated pattern.
I’ll still use AI when it’s convenient, and in coding that’s everyday, but it’s limited.
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I’ve spent 1 month in a code-base that was vibe-coded by AI. Multiple files that lead nowhere, multiple duplications, etc. Wanna change a button? Good luck finding it. And I’m seeing this more and more in small businesses, so I can only imagine how bad it is in corporate projects.
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What worries me more about AI are the businesses around it, the rapid adaptation of an unstable tech, and the sloppification of multiple fields due to AI.
This will lead to a correction. Already in tech, the field most influenced by AI, the slop is breaking apps. It’s preventing scalability.
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Sometimes evil doesn’t need to be nuanced. Sometimes people are just evil and need to be stopped.
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He’s taken a stance more extreme than the LAPD.
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Do you have proof?
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Something something Second Amendment
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In my experience, the easiest way to get to the bedroom is through the kitchen.
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Me, struggling in Threejs and Blender for years just to make a donut: “Why yes, it’s all natural.”
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I know individuals like this in real life. Can’t think of any like them in fiction.
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“Democratize creativity”
At what point was it undemocratic?
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*lobster ragnarok
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How are “bedbound” or “housebound” offensive or problematic? They don’t conjure up any stereotypes other than, “what a bad situation for that individual.”