If you're a coder and you look up to me in any way as a programmer, please know that I cannot respect and in fact have a very poor opinion of people who voluntarily use any kind of cloud based LLM for coding with any kind of regularity
I say this because
1. I know some people do look up to me in that way
And
2. It is imo very important to create a culture of shame around the use of AI
AI is dogshit. And the more contact people have with AI, the more they'll realize it's dogshit and turn against it as tacky. The only reason anyone's doing any of it is because billionaires and multinationals are telling them "AI is the future!" and cramming it into everything
Even with all this they still can't get *most* people to give it more than a passing glance. Because people can instinctively recognize that it's dogshit, that it's useless insipid vapid bullshit with no intrinsic value
@eniko Yup. Work is zealously forcing this down our throats, and I put my disgust aside long enough to give it an honest evaluation, because it's my job and because I wanted to have an informed opinion to push back.
It sucks, it's garbage, I don't want it, and it's already polluting our code base. I just had my first experience of deleting slop, a completely useless unit test. I called the person who committed it, and they admitted that Copilot wrote it and they didn't understand what it did.
@midnightspire @eniko I've noticed that there's an almost-perfect overlap between "people who claim that AI is perfectly fine for writing code" and "people who have a history of showing disregard for the quality of their work and how much work they create for others in the process"
