anyone else feel that AI has sucked all joy out of the open source world?
i used to scroll fdroid when I’m bored and it was so exciting sometimes
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I was never that into the open source community, but I did admire it from afar.
I don’t see how anyone would ever contribute to open source now, knowing it will just be thrown into the meat processor.
Personally, yes but also im seen this stuff not work at all. I help people alot on a large programming discord and ive seen schizophrenic coding and its always AI. I usually tell them I can’t help you because its almost all wrong. They are usually upset but the code makes up non existent calls and what not. I’m thinking when they took all the content from GIT it did much more damage to the AI than they realize yet. Then people post about the code and they replug the code into AI, making a shit eater, eat its own shit.
edit: Why am I flagged dupe? My grammar is way to shit for me to be a bot?
It’s sucked the joy out of the whole field for me, yeah. I really enjoy programming and have since I was barely a teenager. Throughout my career I’ve even enjoyed doing code reviews because it brought me joy to see clever solutions to problems and to be able to discuss them with their authors, but with AI I just can’t anymore. Most of the time the code is just generated with no actual human thinking involved
I also have coworkers who aren’t even programming at all anymore. They tell me about how they just set up agents to work on features and review the output every half an hour and I don’t understand at all because that sounds awful to me even if the code is perfect.
I expect it all to come crashing down soon but its not soon enough because it’s all been rather soul crushing
Likewise, but the code is pretty far from perfect. “Future maintenance hazard”, but half my colleagues can’t even see what’s wrong with it, and the bot tells them it’s all fine so they don’t think about it any further.
Can’t wait for that bubble to burst. Burn the whole lot down.
Oh, yeah what I wrote came out far differently than I intended it to. I meant more like even in the unlikely scenario where it WAS perfect, I’d still hate it.
I’m still practicing my human art skills, my 3d modeling, sculpting, painting, my fundamentals.
I’m still struggling to learn programming the hard way, only using a bot on my own GPU as a last resort to rubber-duck or explain higher-level concepts to my thick skull.
Screw this hardware inflation, I’m holding out and keeping old machines around and I’ll drop back several tech-generations if I have to.
I’m hoping if anything , my perseverance will be rewarded in a post-Ai-bubble world where I’m considered good at what I do, especially after the majority had simply thrown up their hands, given up, and brain-atrophied after they saw a generated Will Smith believably slurping 65 lbs of spaghetti and everything under the sun “But as a Miyazaki film.”
It’s a monster that feeds on our fears to drive us into despair. We should refuse to let it see us flinch.
Career-wise, even the usual insider mouthpieces are starting to agree that AI won’t kill CS:
But yeah, AI has definitely scorched the FOSS landscape. We will somehow figure out a way though.
it kills the joy in CS
I heard people being concerned that a job in CS would change from writing code to fixing bugs in AI code, and that sounds dreadful
A company i applied for and had 2 interviews at, is planing to do that…idk if i rather want to be homeless or do that and get lots money
No longer will need a software engineer but a software technician. Lol
Someone close to me is an accountant, and is facing layoffs, downsizing, and much-longer working hours, as management pushes remaining staff to use more and more AI in accounting analysis and reporting. Trying to get one accountant to accomplish what used to take several.
I’m surprised at the inclusion of “accounting” on this list.
Pretty crazy since I keep hearing from engineer graduates that they can’t find jobs anywhere.
Safe from AI replacement doesn’t mean safe from a recession that’s being covered up by AI circular financing and a convenient spin story for the resulting mass layoffs.
Until AI boosters are mercilessly persecuted like script kiddies of yore open source won’t get better. Codeberg has the right idea.
Hopefully it will widen the gap between those who can and those who cannot (at least yet), even if there will be loads of more of the latter.
Talk to any master plumber. You will wreck your body. It’s not a forgiving career.
Electrician people.
I’m not so sure electrician is any easier on the body. Both require lots of sustained effort at odd and awkward positions.
Not arguing one is better or worse, just that both are physically demanding jobs that are quite different than riding a desk all day.
I’ve never met an electrician with a destroyed body but I’ve met many master plumbers with it.
The big difference is electrical rarely involves laying on the floor in tight spaces navigating existing furniture.
Electricians usually just die instantly, instead of destroying their body over time.
Feature, not a bug
One of those trades don’t come with PCB.
Idk I haven’t seen an AI that writes acceptable C/C++ yet (to be honest I haven’t looked that hard)… So as long as my projects focus is low level, thin, maintainable code, I can still do things AI won’t be able to for a long time.
I recognize that being free to write code however I want makes me privileged, and others don’t have that freedom.
Despite that, I am afraid of what will happen to the open source tools I depend on. None of us write our code alone.
Not me. I don’t use it because it’s (mostly) immoral. Sure, it feels like a thorn in the side, a parasite oozing through the walls, but I still enjoy coding.
I also have good reason to believe that nothing resembling modern technology will understand what it’s doing, so we always have that most important edge.
That hog lying down conjures up to me the image of a dying forest god from Princess Mononoke.
Oh, please, not a plumber. I’m traumatized by broken pipes!
