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And that’s precisely the over-arching problem in the modern world.

I get zero fulfillment from manually solving merge conflicts, setting up someone’s fragile idea of a config, or other tedious stuff like that

For sure. And it’s tedious crap like that where A.I can have a limited scope of usefullness. I WANT A.I. to handle all the boring shit so that I can get on with doing the creative side of programming. But CEO’s want it exactly the other way around. Rather than A.I. being your assistant, you become its assistant, it’s proof reader.

I will happily plug a snippet of code into an AI if it’s not working and I need a second set of eyes on it to see where I missed a goddamned colon. But that’s as far as it ever should go. I don’t want it writing code for me, but it can make a pretty good proof-reader so that I can solve an issue and get on with writing faster.

I don’t think this is morally right but this is the wider problem of which overreliance on AI is merely one expression I think

Oh absolutely. Corporations shoving AI down our throats is a symptom of a much wider problem for sure. It’s just the latest tool in the age old mantra that states that “In order to increase profit, you can either make more or spend less.”

Somewhere in around the 80’s, corporations realized that labour was their largest expense, and from that point on, employees became just another line item on a spreadsheet. Something to be managed and minimized as much as possible. They try to squeeze that labour metric down as much as possible to achieve more profit without having to increase revenue at the same time, thereby making the stock price rise.

Humans stopped being an equation in business a long long time ago.

100% I believe the exact same thing. If a person commisions a painting, but the painter is a computer, it doesn’t transfer the title of “artist” onto the person who commisioned the painting.

They want credit for their “creative work” when really all they are is a middle manager with no actual employees.

How long do those middle-management chucklefucks think it’ll be before CEO’s realize that they can just ask the computer themselves?

Than it’s the deadlines that need to change. I’ll happily die on that hill.

Quality over Quantity will always win the race in the long run. Ever tightening deadlines is responsible for the enshittification of everything.

Why is it so hard for these idiots to grasp that the process of actually making something yourself IS THE FULFILLING PART.

It’s not the end result that is where the fulfillment comes in when I’m programming something or writing something; it’s the knowledge that I MADE IT and as a result I have now accomplished something. If you tell an LLM what to do and they do it, you haven’t accomplished anything. You haven’t earned it and you have no right to be proud of it.

Hell, if an LLM came about that could mow my damn lawn so that I could spend more time writing and programming and 3D modelling and video editing, etc… than hot damn…THAT would be something I would pay for.

At what point did the adage “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey” cease being meaningful to these morons?

Impossible to answer. There’s a lot of different variations of “Favourite”.

• Favourite comfort show: (ie…rewatchability) Star Trek: TNG. Honourable Mention goes to Quantum Leap.

• Favourite Drama to rewatch an entire series once a year of so: Battlestar Galactic Remake.

• Favourite Comedy of all time (similar to comfort show…what’s the comedy I can just pop in a random episode of and enjoy): Night Court (The original one) with honourable mentions to Community and How I Met Your Mother.

No one of those three beats the other two. They just exist in different worlds.

Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.