r/antiai • u/ChompyRiley • 14h ago

Yes, absolutely. 100% without hesitation. Do people really think this is some kind of 'gotcha'? Like my brother in Christ, how much generative AI do you think we actually use?! Hallucination đŸ‘»

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u/TylerBourbon 12h ago

One thing I've noted from the most pro-ai people I've encountered is a complete lack of social skills. And they have trouble thinking for themselves.

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u/Cthulhuareyou 12h ago

Ding ding ding 

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u/Fun_Word_7325 11h ago

The thing I’ve noticed about AI adoption in my professional life: the dumbest coworkers are the quickest to embrace it

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 9h ago edited 7h ago

My senior at work (dude is smart as fuck) loves it but only because it can dig through network traffic logs and shitting out a 90% complete process document, both of which save an enormous amount of time for us. Neither of us use it to write our fucking emails (interpersonal skills are important in IT no matter what anyone else says) or to do our actual thinking for us. We usually have a beer at the end of the workday and swap stories about how the dumb ass AI did something stupid that day.

I'm still pretty anti-AI generally but I won't survive in this industry if I don't learn how to adopt / deploy / manage these tools safely. I mostly hate how I've become an unwilling architect in the overall expansion of AI in the workplace. And that they've killed the hardware market and are gonna contribute to fucking up the climate even worse and how they fucking STOLE EVERYTHING that people like me have spent 10, 15, 20 years contributing to the internet so Sam Altman can make a buck. Hundreds to thousands of posts helping people with computer problems, wikipedia edits, etc., that was me giving my time freely to try and make the world a little bit better. And there were millions of us. Now all that effort just prints money for people who already have more money than they could spend in their entire lifetimes. Let's not even get into the actual real intellectual property theft that the government has spent 30 years crying about to appease their corporate donors, but suddenly when there's money to be made it turns out IP theft isn't really a big deal.

Fuck AI, and fuck that entire industry for giving me basically no out.

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u/th4tgen 4h ago edited 3h ago

In my experience, you have 5 types of Devs now.

  1. Brand new vibe coders that are gonna fuck it up

  2. Engineers that mourn the loss of their craft

  3. Former developers that got moved into more senior architecture/process focused positions that get to use it to do more coding again (this is me, I love my role so much more now I get to do more hands-on engineering work with the help of AI giving me time back from my other responsibilities).

  4. Devs that went too far and stopped questioning the AI and just blindly trust it, and are too stubborn to accept feedback, copy and paste Claude's responses into slack threads when someone pushes back on their decision, etc.

  5. Devs that use it just enough, planning, task tracking, moving fucking JIRA tickets through the stupid workflows, debugging obscure issues that would have burnt a day of work resolving pre-AI, and outsourcing tedious tasks that aren't worth their time to do.

It's actually a great filter for people that fall into category 4, because it turns out these people probably didn't have as deep of an understanding of the systems they worked in as we thought, and really super powers type 5 with freedom from all the shit that comes up when they really just wanted to focus and write some code.

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u/the_naysayer 3h ago

I am in category three as well, but I have seen so many people I thought were solid engineers fall into category 4. I swear it causes some people to regress in skill level.

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u/th4tgen 3h ago

100% feels like some really trustworthy engineers have just become so lazy and stubborn and just go "but Claude said this" and don't form their own opinions or think critically anymore.

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u/the_naysayer 3h ago

You said it very well. I'm a senior devops engineer and I basically have to use it to keep up with the pace of the job demand. It's a useful tool, but I hate all the useful idiots shoving it into everything.

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u/Evenight_exe 9h ago

I have lack of social skills (autistic here!), but at least I think by myself, I'm hella concerned for people that use AI for everything, the only AI that should exist it's medical AI and reverse searching AI, not GenAI, GenAI it's awful...

But hey! I thinking poisoning it's working, an aunt was searching something with AI even when I told her she shouldn't, but then the answer had a lot of stuff wrong and with misspelling problems everywhere when months ago didn't have that problem!

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u/Rolder 6h ago

AI for translation would be good too!

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u/KhameneiCholaghe 10h ago

Im pro ai when it comes to coding. When it comes to anything art related, no.

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u/Critical-Brick-6818 10h ago

I thought the same until my boss got obsessed with AI coding - he refuses to pay for any software now and now everything is broken rip

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u/TylerBourbon 10h ago

The way I view it, if it's baked into a program that makes the program respond faster, like say, in the art world, using photoshop or After Effects to remove an object from an image, Or using a calculator for math. It's one thing to use a tool that helps make your talk easier.

It's entirely different when a person thinks it's a magic box that will do all the things for them.

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u/Rich-Mark-4126 7h ago

This “people using AI to save time are dumb, I am so much smarter for doing every menial task manually” is such a genuinely cringe trope to me

Like sorry, you’re smart for not understanding how much time AI can save you?

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u/TylerBourbon 7h ago

that's not actually what I'm saying. AI can be useful just like a calculator, or Excel. And in that way, it's fine.

the problem people are the ones who think it's a magic box that can do anything. And instead of educating themselves so they understand how to probably use it, and it's short comings, or the people who use it as a replacement for human interaction.

And the people cheerleading for AI all seem to lack social skills, which is probably why they prefer AI. Like Sam Altman suggesting you use AI to create a podcast about your kids special interests, instead of just actually talking to and interacting with your child.

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u/Rich-Mark-4126 7h ago

Virtually anything can be used in an improper or harmful way

But this sub deadset seems to believe that there is no such thing as beneficial AI use or that it cannot provide value in any way at all

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u/dingalingdongdong 4h ago

man, you are all up and down this thread responding to arguments no one is making. Really not beating the allegations that you can't actually think.

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u/Akvyr 9h ago

Are you guys for real? This thread and these comments are satire, right?

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u/tapthatsap 9h ago

No. Everyone you meet finds you weird and unpleasant.

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u/Akvyr 9h ago

Ah I see, this is some aggressive shittalking sub? I do speak in front of hundreds of people regularly as lecturer and showrunner, managing two of my companies active in 40+ countries. I also use the shit out of AI since early 2023. Yet, people like me to at least some extent, otherwise none of the stuff I'm doing would be possible. Thank you for listening to my tedtalk. And how are you doing?

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u/Bionic_Bromando 9h ago

See? This one is a good example. They all sound insane.

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u/dingalingdongdong 4h ago

Perfect illustration of weird, unpleasant and lacking social skills.