Watching so many of my fellow believers in Christ insist this man would somehow bring about a resurgence of biblical values has been one of the most bizarre and disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed
I’m raising my son to never be a woman hating, chronically online, incel weirdo. I’m raising my daughter to never be a man hating, entitled, tiktok brained loser. We need less of these in society
@belltownbombr @BENZOTOOIE Lol I’m 2001 and I’ve had a Facebook since I was a kid. I don’t use it much anymore but me and my cousins and some friends used it to play games and chat with each other all the time
Listen, I'm a software engineer. I study Software Engineering in a university where several software engineers leave with highly successful careers. I'm not going to reveal where, but bear with me.
I have never written academically relevant code with AI. All code submitted into academic work has been manual. I've gotten top grades from them. These tests involve practical programming (actual software) and simple tasks useful in interviews (e.g. making binary trees or parsers).
With that being said, and with my track record of making software used by many people with zero AI assistance, there's still a line to be drawn. Being against AI in code is like being against textile machines, or factories. Manual work will bring errors into the output, same as it was in the industrial revolution, and after machines took over precision dominated the market. Suddenly, products that had people's involvement in the output of machines didn't suck, while total machine work was doomed to fail.
I'm not radically an AI dev. I use AI to assist in my programming. I tell it to fix some issues, programming oversights (because I still suck), and get rid of tedious tasks (like putting new shit in CMakeLists.txt). Fable 5 shrunk my program's output size because I let it do the right thing with my outputs which I could never do because i've been hitting roadblocks with almost 0 help I could get. I also vibecoded software I deemed to be way too much of a hassle to do myself. Little bits of things that people don't notice, or are too niche for a relevant userbase, that are audited, and that just... work.
If there's a piece of software that doesn't exist, I think like a programmer, see if it's suitable, and then start putting my mind into making things happen, and if I get stuck, I consult LLMs.
LLMs are like textile machines in the grand scheme of things. They're unavoidable, accelerate the amount of work done, and are genuinely beneficial to everyone. There's no reason as to why they're bad, except (overblown) environmental concerns.
We're witnessing another industrial revolution happen, and it depends on how you use the new machines in whether or not you'll be better or be going back to square one.
If you choose to ignore the progress LLMs made on programming, that's on you. You can write good quality code if you put your mind on it, as has happened before, and that's fine! Mission critical software can't be written with AI as it's highly sensitive, which is also part of that line I drew. But you can also integrate LLMs where you think they belong if you're smart and qualified enough to do so, which I think should be the competency threshold for agentic dev.
@backlessdress26 It’s weird cuz every other aspect of my life I’m in a good place. Im 25 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, I make decent money for my area, I’m physically fit, and I have a decent social circle. But I’ve only ever been on one date before and have a hard time approaching women
@Bonkytheidiot A lot of the people who are hating are trying to “call him out” for not mentioning she has to be attractive too. But that literally goes without saying. Nobody wants to date someone who they aren’t attracted to