There are no 'personalities'. There are no 'feelings'. There is software looking at patterns and regurgitating text that fits that pattern, because that is what it was programmed to do.

These idiots using those words would still be fooled by Eliza.

but DO they have their audience?

or maybe this is gaming the system on two sides: the company puts out AI slop on the channels, and then creates hundreds of fake accounts and downloaders and streamers to make it seem like the thing is the bees knees, none of which have ad-blocking on , so it just rakes in the ad-view count?

This is far beyond just spotify and podcasts. The AI Slop of music has invaded YouTube on a massive scale, where common searches of semi-rare material (say, Disney Parks Background Loops) are now flooded with "Ambient" and "Jazz" and "Orchestra" loops that have nothing to do with Disney, their songs (however they are arranged) nor the parks music at all. It is just generic AI-generated junk but picking up on those keywords and including fake Disney video animation content to get the click.

Pretty sure this is going to hit other genre things, too, like if you were to search for "Star Wars Music". Maybe the "Christmas Music" AI slop might actually be recognizable Christmas/Seasonal tunes this coming season...but something tells me probably not.

seriously, he's going to lose these in the long run (he already has on several other firings), but he continues because 1) SCOTUS has never made a blanket statement he can't yet, and 2) it isn't his money, win or lose.

...doesn't this open up the ultimate in bait and switch excuses? Oh sorry, that car doesn't actually exist. The AI just made it up. We'll see if we can get our provider to fix that but for now can we show you THIS car that's only $4000 more expensive?

at the very least, doing code reviews of jr developers gives one (of age/experience) the satisfaction that the mentoring is going to produce a better developer who can take on bigger tasks, eventually start reviewing others, and the company experience continues to grow until the obligatory pointless layoffs to boost the stock price.

you can't trust an AI to truly remember anything you tried to "teach" it if it even got a look at your fixes of their crappy code, because even if it did, the next version of the bot's engine may need to be retrained from scratch as it "forgot" almost everything. Plus, it is REALLY hard to get AI to understand general code design philosophies like "3 strikes and you refactor" - it is designed to regurgitate first, not solve problems by increasing the use of shared code. I look at some AI results and all I see is tech debt that will eventually kill the product but never get fixed because nobody quite understands the original task it was trying to do when it just did 'copy and mod'.

some have suggested that's just because it has more or less illegally webscraped the entirety of stackoverflow and reddit, so you're really just doing a resource-intensive google search to find the right stack overflow question/answer page, without either of those sites getting any credit for it.

That's what it comes down to. When you start vibe-coding, you're no longer really coding, and you're not even really creating anymore.

You're just editing. All you're doing is code reviews and quick bug fixes...and those tend to be my least favorite parts of my job.

At least code-reviewing a junior developer, you're teaching, mentoring, instilling some new disciplines or expanding their horizons.

There's no satisfaction in doing that to a bot. Especially because the next time it codes something for you, it is going to come up with something completely different as if the 'experience' you tried to give it doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah, maybe it gets the job done...but I'm not in this to 'get the job done'. If this is what the job was or is going to become, then I'll quit, do my own coding on the side for open-source or other projects, and just make money as a substitute teacher... ...that is, if I didn't have to pay for health insurance, but America sucks in that regard and always will.

Again, they think they can change this crap whenever they want. Computers don't work that way. Anything that involves scheduling a future event is now a problem. If they stored it in pure UTC (just a TZ offset) or EPOC, it will be an hour off. Every single calendar event could be an hour off.

because aside from the core GNU/Linux stuff, there's not a lot of C++ out there compared to TS/JS and shell (or even Python and perl and php).

C++ coding is rarely just 'raw'. usually the bulk of what you're doing is integrating multiple libraries together. How do you talk to your database? How do you create an API and/or a webpage and/or a UI? Each of these decisions requires integration that isn't published as well as the thousands of examples out there on stackoverflow for an AI to gobble up.

So internally, a team might start using AI to expand on its own code-base...but nobody is going to use AI to create a project from scratch in C++ unless speed is the #1 concern...and usually if you're heading to AI, speed of the product is not the #1 concern: speed of getting it out the door is. The AI is not going to know how to use the libraries a complex C++/C# system needs to integrate with because those are generally paid and proprietary (again, outside of GNU/Linux and Linux open source systems like gnome/gtk or kde).

we'll see within a year if AI starts getting involved in making linux desktop apps, but most windows developers will more likely use copilot for C# as Microsoft keeps training it.

I wonder if it is related to the uncertainties that come with the mid-term elections. Almost every one so far since 2006 [exception: 2014] has seen the House flip which invites a whole new relationship with the President (usually antagonistic) and with it a huge increase in uncertainties that tend to drop a lot of markets for a time. So maybe they're selling to ride it out in more stable things (like international stocks and, well, you've likely noted the price of gold is exploding...)

a social media bubble before social media became a 'thing'.

he started a blog and the comments started to taint things - feeding his ego by praising how much he knows about office life and then convincing him that he's therefore an expert at everything...and then when others challenged some of his claims or 'questions' (of the "just asking" type), he doubled-down because the applause from the right-wingers on his feed was louder. We respond to positive reinforcement until we're aware of it, and he (like others we could name) never really became aware of it, never became aware of the biases building and hardening. he treated the questions as an attack on him (like others we could name)

And then the 'all conservative positions are the same conservative positions' started kicking in. Having decided he's "right" in agreeing with some things, he falls into agreeing with almost all of them.

His vaccine denialism was the last straw for me, but if I'd known about his holocaust denialism sooner, I'd have quit dilbert-reading back then. somehow that had missed my circles at the time.

We all want that relaxed, let the "personal agent" do it for you lifestyle when it comes to things like vacation plans, buy the next book as you see i've finished the current one, coordinate my business meetings, and order flowers for the wife's birthday - all that "and the company that will bring it to you stuff" predicted back in the early 90s.

Now finaly that the tech is here that can do it...none of us (and rightly so) trust the corporations operating them, or the rest of the network, to let them actually do it.

https://developers.slashdot.or... pretty much covered my thought about job satisfaction. If all you're doing each day, hour after hour, is "code reviews", that seems to me a really shitty job.

One reason vibe-coding is catching on with smaller firms is that, well, AI is "free" to them right now. I can go download Visual Studio Code, and get CoPilot for free...or maybe I ditch that and put Claude on it. Doesn't matter. I could still use it to generate code and hey, I'm not paying a thing.

They're getting "inexperienced junior developers" for free.

But 2 problems with that. The obvious one is noted above several times: how do you get senior, experienced developers when you haven't trained any junior developers (and don't think you're REALLY training the AI on your business model and real use cases - at any moment the engine host can just toss out a bunch of institutionalized memory for cost reasons and you're fake junior developers are as dumb as when you first started.

At some point, unless they just want the job and that's that, a code *editor* is going to get sick of editing. Maybe they won't, I don't know for sure...but I sure as hell know *I* would get sick of editing junk code day after day after day. There's no joy in it. There's no satisfaction. It is just the job, nothing more.

Now the second problem: when will they stop making it free?

This crap is expensive (as anybody following news headlines goes). And small firms and individual developers aren't paying for it. The big companies are by taking out loans against their stock values (case in point, Oracle, which took a huge 1/3rd of a drop in value for doing so).

So at some point, like with every free service that gets enshitified so that it can be somehow paid for, AI code generation will be no different. They're going to have to do SOMETHING to turn this free service into something that makes money. Licenses for improvements, a limit on number of prompts per day, advertisements showing up in the comments that the code generator generates, maybe even they'll start creating code that requires you to have a commercial library license and they won't generate 'clean' (zero derivative) code unless you pay separately, and then throw in all the vendor lock-in that goes with that.

All those things that already happen for "free" AI services online like photo cleanups. They'll have to start doing it here to recoup the huge investments.

We'll see how that changes the way this stuff is seen.