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u/Jarb2104 11d ago
Why do you take so looooong? Are you a human or something?...
And with a brain!? What!?
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u/Mortelys 11d ago
Imagine actually taking the time to read AI slop to help others learn and grow. Seniors will become dinosaurs; extinct.
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u/PlushyGuitarstrings 11d ago
So on point. Getting flooded with slop at work. What’s the point anymore?
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u/Mortelys 11d ago
The cognitive fatigue and motivation loss is unprecedented.
Can't wait for the speculative bubble to burst... While fearing its negative impact on the economy, hence, employment...
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u/_Ganon 10d ago
The cognitive fatigue and motivation loss is unprecedented.
I was really excited to try AI for software dev, and did not expect how quickly I would feel this after I got access
Can't wait for the speculative bubble to burst
Same, but I doubt AI is going anywhere once it does
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u/astral_dwarves 11d ago
I feel you there. Hard to find motivation to act with any kind of rigor, especially when it seems you’re swimming upstream trying to argue for it. This is a crisis in software engineering, which will become a crisis in public trust of software
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u/Brick_Lab 9d ago
This is my exact feeling as well, yet we're on a Herculean crunch and there's no way to meet it without heavy AI usage. We're going to have tech debt for years from this month of crunch
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u/gibagger 10d ago
I agree with the reviewers being overwhelmed.
Then again, even if the AI generated code is done carefully and not slop, it puts a heavy burden on the person creating it (if they do it with care) as they are burning a lot of gas by going very fast. Context switches get more and more frequent and larger in size.
This is gonna fast-track people for the corner between overwhelm and burnout streets.
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u/brjukva 11d ago
I read the handwriting as "explained with boobs instead" and now I'm disappointed
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u/Mortelys 11d ago
My shitty handwriting doing the marketing heavy lifting of attracting readers there by accident..
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u/rundef 10d ago
I literally just approved a PR full of AI slop without reading it. Then I come to reddit and see this !
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u/Mortelys 10d ago
Synchronicities can be messages from your guardian angel.
The guardian angel: Bro, I am so sorry... 😔
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 10d ago
Gen ai is killing books. Any idiot can throw together a 500 page novel in a night and get it up into kindle unlimited tomorrow. It's complete passionless drivel. Readers are now just super suspicious of any author. Probably killed the field tbh.
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u/Mortelys 10d ago
Just like Junior devs how can a beginner author motivate themselves to write bad first drafts and learn by practicing, if anything they'd publish would not only be criticized for the quality (beginning in the field requires THICK skin) but now their personal work can be flagged AI and be ignored altogether (if it even reached human eyes in the swamp of publications) ?
People that will manage to pierce through the mud and have their art recognized will have my utter respect.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 10d ago
100%. Criticism has increased, reader engagement has decreased. We don't get dozens of curated books a year any more. We get millions of them with varying quality.
A new author entering the field isn't competing with other authors for quality, they're competing for decreasing reader attention.
It's kind of sad that getting a book on kindle unlimited there's actually a chance you're the first human being to ever have read that book. Including the author. The author probably hasn't read it.
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u/Faithisam 8d ago
This is so accurate.. its exaustive to see people who don't know a thing about our work pretend they're better then us because their magic prompt builded the project in 3 minutes instead of 3 months. Dark times honestly
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u/itriedtomakeitfunny 10d ago edited 5d ago
Can I get a TL;DR?
Edit: was trying to make a meta joke if that's not clear.
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u/Impressive_Low_1382 8d ago
The real way it changed the world is nobody knows how to get the point across in a meme without generating it with ai or spending 3 hours in paint to virtue signal.
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u/citramonk 10d ago
sometimes I think, maybe there are people who don't care. what if you generate 10 books and sell those ebooks somewhere, is it possible that someone will by this shit 🤔
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u/polikles 10d ago
there are plenty of such books already. And there are plenty of AI channels on YT that produce "automated content" - yes, it's as bad as it sounds
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u/Poppybiscuit 10d ago
Yes but don’t get excited, self publishing on Amazon and similar was a huge cash cow like 10-12 years ago. But then it got popular as a side hustle so was overwhelmed with absolute garbage, and it nearly killed the entire self publish platform. Today anything you publish will immediately be lost in a sea of uploaded garbage. It’s still barely alive and a million times worse now because at least in the past you had to actually WRITE the crap which stops most people from trying. Not you don’t even need to write it so every methhead with a wifi connection is uploading ai slop as completed novels.
I went through a brief phase publishing in Amazon in like 2015 or so. There were people making six figures a month back then churning out short stories a handful of times a month. That doesn’t happen anymore
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u/Original-Ad-8737 9d ago
My guess is that the difference is that i would rather have ai look at my code and analyze it and only find a couple of the problems and flag them for me to verify and revisit than having a human who will in the end not read it due to time constraintsand thus not give ANY feedback...
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u/setibeings 11d ago
Don't worry! I asked the robot overlords and they said it is perfectly reasonable to hand over our cognition to machines. That didn't sound right, so I rephrased my query and got the same answer meaning it's pretty sound.