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The problem is that this framing grants these platitudes validity. "AI is here to stay, but...", "AI is changing [x] industry...", "AI is useful in [x] context" & so on and it's so tired and contrite that we're bought into the framing. Most recently I saw "AI amplifies what's already there"...

And I can't help but just bark at that. Because what the fuck do you mean, amplified? It's a mediocrity machine at best, so what it adds is more *slop*. I suppose if you're already slinging slop it looks multiplicative instead of additive.

"AI is changing the way we work", why? How? And for who's fucking benefit? Because the work output sucks and y'all are mostly just firing people so who the fuck asked for this?

It’s honestly really hard to not fall in the AI trap.. and I for one am definitely guilty of just giving in. And that’s hard because I want to make things with my own hands and some things I absolutely can. It unfortunately has made it too easy to just “make something” and that placates the brain…

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it a million times, the biggest problem with AI is that it works. Right now it’s motor cars 2.0: with a vengeance, and I fell so quickly from being vehemently against it in every capacity to a full-blown addict 😭

It works but I also spend 80% of my time turning something that works into something that isn't a sprawling confusing mess. Believe me, I love it and respect it and appreciate it! Still a huge help! But also!

I think above all else the second order effects of having kids and young people exposed to the “no need to use your brain” machine will be the most enduring of all the problems. We’re only just coming to terms with how much damage social media did.

It’s way to easy to just be like “yup, I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, I have 0 mental bandwidth, Claude go ahead and implement my vision.” And the exhaustion of doing everything else makes you more susceptible to accepting code that is just okay. I have too many projects of just okay code.

This coupled with pressures at work to appease executives has just made the feedback loop even harder to overcome.