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2nd to last paragraph:
To be fair the internet was already shit before 2023
Not to the extent it is now courtesy of AI.
I dunno man, in 20-23 all the ravings about Covid being fake or crafted by china and released on purpose and vaccines being a conspiracy to track you by bill gates were by almost all real people, it was pretty shitty even before ai built all the websites, all the posts, all the comments.
That is definitely true, but right now it's as if that shit has been out in the sun on a hot summer day, right after rain.
IMHO using ai to automate tasks is not the same as using ai to generate sloppy content
Using AI to automate tasks that could be automated with a script is awful. And if the endpoints are there for AI to trigger actions, then a simple script could use those same endpoints to do the same thing.
Using AI to help write the script? (Strong emphasis on "help") Ok, maybe in some scenarios.
But just constantly running AI to do shit is like firing up your big diesel pickup to go down the block to visit your neighbors, except in this case the diesel truck can't even be trusted to reliably take you to your neighbors every time you want to go there. There's always the chance it's going to decide to go somewhere else.
That emdash tho
Emdash is useful punctuation — I use it all the fucking time.
On the other hand, "it's not foo; it's bar," once a quirky rhetorical flourish, now scans lazy and sloppy as shit.
Also, swearing like a motherfucking sailor helps establish one's humanity. So fuck off. No offense. Have a lovely day!
The emdash is a much bigger sign of llm slop than the semicolon. Leave my semicolons outta this.
Llms swear.
The it’s not x it’s not y it’s z! Not x not y just z! Always been lazy. Don’t tell the reader what it isn’t
"Don't tell me what isn't so," has to be something I say on an hourly basis when I use AI. If you ever correct anything, it just writes itself little notes like doing something dumb would be the obvious behavior otherwise.
"This service does not use JPA, it uses JDBC, so don't add Hibernate to the dependencies."
Motherfucker, what? Four words: "this service uses JDBC." I swear it's a gimmick to make AI use more tokens.
let's make them enjoy it less
i've seen multiple "the internet is turning to shit, but i love AI!" posts this week. absolutely brain-dead.