Fuck AI

hi, i have strong feelings about the use of genai but i come at it from a very different direction (story writing). it's possible for someone to throw together a 300 page story book in an afternoon - in the style of lovecraft if they want, or brandon sanderson, or dan brown (dan brown always sounds the same and so we might not even notice). now, the assumption that i have about said 300 pager is that it will be dogshit, but art is subjective and someone out there has been beside themselves pining for it.

but this has always been true. there have always been people churning out trash hoping to turn a buck. the fact that they can do it faster now doesn't change that they're still in the trash market.

so: i keep writing. i know that my projects will be plagiarized by tech companies. i tell myself that my work is "better" than ai slop.

for you, things are different. writing code is a goal-oriented creative endeavor, but the bar for literature is enjoyment, and the bar for code is functionality. with that in mind, i have some questions:

if someone used genai to generate code snippets and they were able to verify the output, what's the problem? they used an ersatz gnome to save them some typing. if generated code is indistinguishable from human code, how does this policy work?

for code that's been flagged as ai generated- and let's assume it's obvious, they left a bunch of GPT comments all over the place- is the code bad because it's genai or is it bad because it doesn't work?

i'm interested to hear your thoughts

this is cool

you should make a post about this somewhere here on Lemmy

people should know about it

I like this approach, but how can it be enforced? Would you have to read every line and listen to a gut feeling?

Thank you

That's cool and all, but also they obviously are not just using it to translate. Those are an LLM's words, not a human's, and it is painfully clear. It doesn't even seem like a person is "behind the wheel" at all. As soon as someone disagrees with them, they basically just apologize for "getting it wrong" and do whatever that person told them. They actually go back and forth on the naming convention based solely on the most recent comment. It's typical LLM "agree with the person no matter what" behavior.

TBF if the reviewer just quoted Claude at me, I would reply with Claude or ChatGPT.

I see this excuse of burn out every time it comes to LLM use, but i honestly do not buy it. You cant tell me every other dev out there just burnt out at the same time in sync with the release of LLM coding assistants. If you use LLMs like this you simply dont care about the project anymore and should move on with your life. Its better for everyone if it gets abandoned by the original dev and forked by ones that care. Sometimes you just gotta let go.

I originally meant to leave a much shorter comment; apologies.

I can't code to save my life. However I find your observation interesting. The way I see it, AI, no matter where, is eroding human to human interactions. It becomes the middleman for everything.

It's really obvious with personal research. A couple years ago if you wanted to start say, growing tomatoes in your backyard, you would have searched people's comments on a variety of media platforms, would have read a few books or blogs. You would have asked questions to a bunch of people with some experience, left a like or upvote on people posting photos of their tomatoes, you would have used your own judgement to discern what consisted good quality advice and what not.

It would have taken you days. But all that interaction is very rewarding especially for those authoring comments, blogs, books, and photos of their experiences. Because nobody makes something just to be ignored.

Now LLM does all that process for you. In a matter of seconds. And giving no feedback or interaction to anyone whose information was used. It's depressing, but I'm intrigued to see how it plays out.

I never liked vim. This got me to try Micro and now the only time I'm going to use Vim is if I'm forced by a remote system I can't install it or nano on. I may strip it out of my systems entirely. I really don't need something so complicated to edit the sudoers file.

Re: Neovim

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-work

Or just switch to Neovim?