Fuck AI

You are not alone. I feel like the world is quickly giving in to LLMs and I'm one of the very rare holdouts. My nephews, my coworkers, my bosses... all of them use a mix of ChatGPT, Gemini, and/or Claude regularly. Hell, even my therapist tells me his wife uses ChatGPT for everything. I remember being worried when kids would immediately answer questions with some obnoxious response akin to "just Google it". I wondered if abandoning the need to remember anything would impact development. Now they instantly go to a chatbot.

I've tried it a few times with difficult problems and always found hallucinations. If I'm looking for something that doesn't exist, the LLM has always made up a convincing answer. It's frightening how so many people trust it blindly.

I work in US Public Education and the adoption of AI in this space scares the living fuck out of me. I understand the argument: "Kids are using it, or are going to use it. We need to get out in front of it." That's fine. Find a provider that "promises" not to use student data. Protect PII. Great.

But some district admins are enthusiastically using it. I literally mentioned in conversation that I needed to check when something was due for the state and they immediately asked Gemini and assumed the answer was correct. Another one 100% uses it for letters summarizing student performance and freaks out when ChapGPT is down. I can only imagine how horrific it must be in the private sector where the goal is efficiency and profit over everything.

This shit needs to pop, and fast.

It's important to know what your boundaries are and why they are there before someone else chooses them for you. Anthropomorphizing programs, especially LLMs that appear more human, is dangerous and has plagued AI research and tech since it's beginning. It doesn't make decisions or think, it predicts token sequences. It's a guessing machine. It can't be responsible, legally or morally, for what it produces. People have already tricked themselves into giving agents full access that have destroyed data and systems and lives by misunderstand what these tools are and how they work.

And that's not including the ethical implications of more data centers hurting communities and nature, ram and disk shortages, more economic and political instability by further wealth inequality these systems are monetized under, etc. When it's you and whether you'll keep your job or not and have people depending on you it's hard to hold fast, and if you can't find tech jobs without being forced to use unethical tech should or can you change careers.

If that is accepted work culture, I'd update my resume. One day everything will break and no one will know how to fix it.
Then they'll turn to you and expect you to debug the entire slopbase under extreme time pressure and if you can't do it you'll be blamed for the outage.

At least your workplace isn't yet forcing you to use Al instead of your own brain. Some people are at the point of having to fake Al contributions, like Dan Q here.

I recently got a programming job and everyone I work with hates having to use AI but it keeps getting forced on us. We're supposed to allot 2-4 hours a week of ai use at a minimum. I got this job because I love programming and solving problems. What's the point of I'm expected to use a stupid robot?

Sounds like the code is going to be complete shit very fast. Soon you might be the only one that understands it. I now use AI but my brain is active the entire time, I'm basically using it to write out my idea when I already know how I'd implement it myself. Works pretty well that way for me.

today I had a problem with one of my coworkers anxiety about a task and they were fixated on this upgrade they did in the past. They are always using AI to format their emails and stuff. Its clear because of the annotations in email vs when they teams chat. So they are giving me grief about this task and I keep telling them they are not upgrading they are exporting and importing. It becomes such a deal that we have a supervisor and manager meeting about it. This person is so wrapped up in AI sometimes that I don't think they can do the job at a basic level.

That's one reason. Another reason is that your code will be better and you will understand it. Yet another reason is you'll have more privacy. And probably the most important reason is that you're resisting AI development that threatens human existence.

I was shocked when I saw their work is CTRL-A, CTRL-V into Claude and CTRL-V into the IDE without a single neuron being activated.

Yikes – make sure they don’t figure out what Claude Code, Open Code or Codex is.

The way I see it, they have forsaken their humanity. My condolences to them, until they themselves can get the help they need to dig their way out from the hole they dug.

I wouldn't feel bad or in the wrong at all. Those who do not succumb to the genAI slop are superior beings than those who have been brainwashed already. We are the superior people.

I think this is caused by short video formats getting the dopamine baseline so high that solving a problem gives then no joy anymore so they just use ai to do the minimum required.

Also electronic cigarates, don't really have anything to do but since they don't cause so much smoke idiots are using them everywhere busses, offices, waiting rooms, they're worse than regular smokers.

Gross.

This is how the world is now. My co workers love AI even when its spitting out absolute bs which is always.

Drugs are awesome. Until they're not. I feel bad for these people honestly. I don't code or anything but my sister-in-law is one of these AI addicts and she's not even working anywhere. It's insane how quickly she became completely worthless. She used to be creative and artistic now she's a braindead lump who thinks she is way smarter than everyone else because she can prompt.

The important thing to remember is you're not alone in feeling this way, and you're not imagining things. Cognitive decline is measurable is multiple studies now and will affect different people in small or large measure. In the worst cases, antisocial behavior creeps in and can lead to dangerous psychosis.

You are not is the wrong! To the extent you can maintain your sanity and your skillset, you will become the most valuable member of your team (even if they're too "stoned" to recognize it at present).

Yes, they might be faster. They're also sloppier. I'm just waiting for a multinational to get hit with the biggest crash they don't know how to recover from, caused by ai slop. The bubble needs to pop and it will be messy and painful.

Dear @tired_n_bored@lemmy.world, please accept a warm hug, and a great high-five! I believe you are a true, accountable, and actual developer, who believes in purpose and self-confidence! This is what is important. To develop not only some software but your own mind and yourself as a human individual, with unique and ineffably magnificent mind.

Just like if you want nonsensical articles with invented facts, then article writing is a practical use case. But as I’ve pointed out already no reputable editorial is now using LLMs to write their articles...
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22132775

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The point is, there has always been a trade-off between the speed of development and quality of engineering...
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22351660

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“I’m Feeling Lucky” intelligence is optimized for arrival, not for becoming. You get the answer but nothing else (keep in mind we are assuming that it’s a good answer).

You don’t learn how ideas fight, mutate, or die. You don’t develop a sense for epistemic smell or the ability to feel when something is off before you can formally prove it…
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22522382

It's a freaking mess, indeed. I am in a web and network security developer myself, since ~2000. And I do have some slight panic feel myself, trying to learn about it when time is available, with just a very little use of AI at work to almost nothing. And I do eliminate anything AI from personal life, including art and hobby - I will always do so.
Here, even if someone pushes you for to it, please do keep standing your point respectfully prioritizing confidence and self-awareness. Since, in the end, we must always stay human, I believe. Please don't lose yourself in the trends and unstable technology. As we know, what is important is a human to stay a responsible, neat, respectful, and love-felt human, for the sake of magnificent future, your family, and your love for people, purpose, and art.

I believe it'll be alright, but we must always be careful, as developers, and people.
And, sure, I wish you peace, stability, organization, and success!

Related: https://youtu.be/dbMXi9q78Tk (I almost quit YouTube... In this video, you'll hear my honest take on AI burnout, the viral Matt Schumer article, OpenClaw, tech layoffs in 2026, and why the anxiety is the real problem... )

Definitely not a waste to keep your skills sharp. You will be needed when the inevitable crash comes and nobody knows how to even troubleshoot, let alone code a fix.

Senior leadership has demanded that we come up with ideas to automate network operations beyond the automation tools/monitors we’ve already implemented and they keep saying “AI”. I can’t even begin to explain how old, large, and complicated this network is. I’m not even sure what to say.

Rule of thumb in the hospital is each day of inpatient = 1 week of recovery.

The brain isn’t quite a muscle but the same concepts apply.