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“I’m mixed on Al. On one hand, I really enjoy using it to write software. On the other hand, I’m really nervous about its impact on the world,” the engineer wrote in an internal forum for coders.

Yeah, that’s the catch isn’t it? On one hand, we’re ceding skills to oligarch-owned chat bots that are working day and night to create to neofeudal police state where their air conditioned bunkers can survive the climate apocalypse, but on the other hand, it makes your job slightly easier (until you’re inevitably laid off).

It’s a really tough spot to be in.

I do my best to have solidarity with the entire working class, but 👉👈

Hard disagree. We aren’t hating AI and it’s users nearly enough.

“Make no mistakes, don’t use en or em dashes.”

I’m scared to ask, but was it not native to begin with? The actual UI? When did it stop being native?

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I appreciate this for bringing the clankers out for me to block. Butlerian Jihad Now.

More confirmation that URLCheck is fantastic.

Please normalize sanitizing links in your social circles.

We need a maximum voting age. People that won’t be around for dinner shouldn’t be in charge of the groceries.

Not that I want to defend Plex which is definitely enshittifying, but I don’t think most people are buying Plex to stream their own media. They’re doing it so other people can stream their media. Not wanting to buy a domain and set up port forwarding or a reverse proxy or whatever doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. My grandparents are never going to use Tailscale, and even if they did, I don’t think there are any Tailscale smart TV apps.

Disclosure: I run Plex and Jellyfin (and Navidrome) in parallel, and bought a lifetime pass years ago.

Nice.

Not disagreeing at all. The mass unemployment of a bunch of industries is terrible. I’m just saying the other side of the coin is also terrible, that we’re heading towards a world where humans have lost the ability to perform important skills to (potentially hostile) chatbots (owned by billionaires) that we won’t be able to properly manage or oversee. That’s the flip side of most ‘positive’ AI stories: ‘AI is better at detecting early breast cancer… And the doctors that use AI have gotten worse because of it.’

Not just that the next generation of experts will hypothetically be employed as baristas, but I don’t think people take the risk of deskilling enough. The next generation of would-be experts won’t be as good at whatever because they’ve learned to rely on AI. We risk effectively transferring valuable skills from humans to Musk- or Altman-owned chatbots. That should horrify everyone.