I received my first AI-generated pull request recently. It was... not great. A lot of extra code that was not necessary at all, some odd naming conventions, and the size of it all made the whole change set difficult to parse. This wasn't a typical "Well, this works and it's okay, it's just not the way I would do it." Some sections were legitimately terrible.

I have been using AI tools somewhat, but mostly to examine existing structures and answer questions. It's pretty good at that. But the code? I prefer to write it myself. That way I don't forget how it all works, like the people in this article. I am hoping that I can continue to do this for the most part because telling a machine to "just kinda do the thing, y'know" and relying on non-deterministic output scares the crap out of me. Doubly so when I stop being able to understand what's being done to the system.

And one of the devs in the article is from a fintech firm? Really? Man. This isn't good. Well, for them, anyway. For the rest of us it sounds like we have a lot of cleanup work to do...

And what about the computer that was used to write to the floppies?

It could have been worse. They could have decided to use a camera to track your eye movement to move the mouse / focus, so when you want to activate the AI feature you look like you're having a seizure.

The reliance on words like "dreaming" are a cynical marketing ploy to try to make the product seem more human, and more capable, and more intelligent than it really is. Don't get me wrong - these tools are very cool and quite powerful - but strip away some of the layers of unicorn dust and it's still just a (very) sophisticated auto-complete word prediction engine.

It's not alive, it isn't conscious, it doesn't "dream," etc.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

Thank you for your support, comrade.

I suppose he must be a strong Trump supporter, since Trump is working to remove nuclear weapon capabilities from Iran.

hacking.yeah

I am old enough to remember when buying a game with online content gave you the game client AND server software.

I can still run old Quake online if I want. Costs id Software nothing.

I know companies moved away from this to an online service model to fight piracy. But we, the gaming community, let them.

We should demand a RETVRN TO THE OLDE WAYS. I personally have been avoiding games that can turn off my purchase on a whim.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

This will not end well.

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

Ai will just shine the light on the class of workers who have make-work just that exist solely to push them to vote harder.

When we can let markets replace them, itâ(TM)ll be a tragedy for a few generations and then it will be forgotten.

I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.

Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.

Fuck IP.