I give old . reddit a year or two before they remove it.

For real, I was always worried about my back instead because my high school math teacher said don’t mess with your back (or you’ll end up sleeping on the floor).

Managers would never fire themselves, though.

I’m at 9 years myself, I use Ubuntu on desktop, Mint on my home ThinkPad, Ubuntu on my work ThinkPad, and a mix of Debian/Proxmox and Ubuntu for my servers. I’m hoping to switch my desktop to Mint at some point.

Xbox Series S is also great for modding too. Wii U is nice for modding too IMO.

I’m a millennial too and tbh I’ve done the gen z stare, sometimes there are just things that dumbfound you.

Nobody is always going to have the answer to everything and be immediately quick on their feet at all times.

It’s a slippery slope, I can’t imagine organizations won’t want more and more control over the public.

Not yet, it doesn’t. We’ll see how far we go down this hole.

I feel like the only way we can do anything about this is for us to have more money than the companies pushing for these changes, which is obviously not going to be possible… I’m not sure what else can be done.

The problem is the laws getting passed, not with software that gives people a choice about whether to comply.

Is it going to give a choice, though? As more and more of these laws are passed, soon people will have no choice. Open-source software was supposed to be about freedom, and I see this as anything but that.

How is this a theory? This is literally what’s happening lol

Even if it’s not advertising itself pushing it, the rest of what was said is true.

If I had to guess, it’s probably because most gamers aren’t programmers.

He removed the authorship specifically because he was attacked for using AI.

People were already going after him for using AI.

I have no problem with him using AI personally, because I trust that he is a competent enough dev if he has built and maintained this program thus far. If you don’t trust him specifically because he’s using AI now, and you don’t trust him to review the code the AI produces, then that’s your choice.

I’m excusing the technology because it’s specifically not useless, I have found uses for it. I’m not going to demonize the technology when the companies that are abusing it are nearly the entire problem. It’s about the scope of resources required and the job loss produced by this tech.

Do you really think running LLMs locally on your GPU is causing irreversible societal harm?

I know, it’s not popular to say AI isn’t the problem, but honestly, the companies abusing it are the problem.

It’s similar, but it’s not the same thing.

Anyone can have an AI “write code”, but ultimately, you’re still responsible for the output of the AI and ensuring that the end result is good. If you are a competent developer, you know things like testing, storage, security and safety (especially when dealing with sensitive data like user data), backups, monitoring, etc along with understanding each line of code. AI will never be perfect because humans aren’t perfect either, AI requires code review just like humans require code review. If you aren’t a programmer, you won’t be able to review the code AI writes, and mistakes will be missed, just like not reviewing human-written code because humans make mistakes too. I don’t see that ever changing because no software is perfect, there will always be bugs no matter what (once the software is complex/sophisticated enough).

AI does generate societal damage, but that’s mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

That’s my thoughts on AI and especially AI coding. That ended up being much longer than I expected and there’s more to it but you get the idea.

Honestly, unfortunately, I agree. It IS unfortunately helpful, and if you’re a competent developer using AI tooling, you can make sure it doesn’t generate slop. You are responsible for your code, at the end of the day.

AI does generate societal damage, but that’s mostly because of how companies abuse it and less because of the technology itself.

Why do we gravitate toward those brands even when cheaper and more generic options exist that are perfectly on par?

To be fair, there are plenty of people who specifically avoid those brands because they are more expensive and they know they can save money with cheaper alternatives, or because they can’t afford the name brand.

With that said, there are some times where the name brand does actually provide a superior product.

If marketing majors could read, they’d be very upset.

Yeah, my manager replaced the team with his friends that he hired. It was just a case of nepotism, nothing I did wrong.

At least I have a 30% higher paying job now than I did back then, and this one actually has bonuses that they pay out too.

edit: Just got my bonus, hell yeah.

You know, a few months before I was laid off at my previous job, they did announce record-breaking year-over-year profits right after I built them a new site, and then they laid me off a few months after that.

Then again, I’ve been at my current company for a few years now, and they have been announcing record-breaking year-over-year profits over the past 3 years and it’s been fine, so I guess it depends lol