He/Him | Hu/En/some Jp | ASD | Bi | C/C++/D/C#/Java

  • 1 Post
  • 21 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: March 16th, 2024

help-circle





  • Entryism. Promote a “rational adaptation” scheme, reject “slop”, embrace “gems”, try to use it as a “helping tool”.

    The reality is much grimmer: Some vibe coders lie about them only using it as a tool, them “reading the output” is just getting it compiled and maybe pass some (AI generated) tests, and overly trust the genAI over classical search engines. People using the tools show some degree of AI psychosis, such as trying to “prompt” flesh and blood people (“I’ve read on a blog that…” is often used to make chatbots agree with you, and is also used towards humans by those who talk to chatbots a bit too much).









  • They confuse us with legitimate technophobes.

    My stepmother was a technophobe. She read articles about school shootings in the US, and thought if I got addicted to video games like Quake, I’ll be buying a machine gun from the black market, then end up as a murderer. Yes, she also had a moral panic about drug use, all while she was a borderline alcoholic. The farce in it was that while I wasn’t allowed to play any Quake games, there was no harm in Unreal games, which arguably are better. The tragedy in it was that she tried her best to steer me away from computers, giving me some disadvantage in college, also she lied to the doctors about my first seizure to make it seem like it was due to the computer, which lead to the doctors not doing tests besides EEG and strobe lights. Once social media rolled out, she somewhat changed her mind on the subject, though she was still ignorant enough to think “software developer” and “CNC programmer” are the same, and almost got me a job at a local factory (she feared that if I lived on Budapest for a bit longer, I’d get some lung disease, because big city equals bad air).