the rise of AI has taught me that simply not using computers is way more viable than i thought.

I literally learned to crochet because i feel existential dread and need more practical skills so i’m not at risk of computers suddenly becoming unusable and my life being in tatters… Being able to make things is actually so fucking comforting, it’s a great way to pass time too.

yeah no sorry, you don’t just get to conveniently ignore all the systematic problems with AI usage.

AI datacentres are displacing people, deforesting huges swathes of land, placing massive loads on electrical grids which makes electricity more expensive and encourages more fossil fuel usage, using shitloads of water for cooling; and AI is replacing workers, sneakily influencing users, and people offloading cognitive effort onto it results in their skills atrophying and code becoming unmaintainable.

Using AI to write code is like always buying fast food: it’s bad for you, bad for the environment, fucking expensive, and means you never learn how to actually cook your own food.

not just evangelism but the general weird culture around it, i feel like it’s gotten partially absorbed into the crypto/linkedin sphere where people just constantly post technobabble-filled affirmations to show they’re part of the group.

no no, a werehuman is a creature that transforms into a human under a full moon

and this is why AI code should either be considered public domain or illegal by default, unless the user can prove which code went into the training data.

arch is like an IKEA flatpack, this is more like a bunch of tools and materials and a big textbook i think

Have fun dying mad about it. The rest of us will be over here seething anyway, while you cope.

I’m not getting over it.
You’re just going to have to accept that fact and get over it.

pentiumpunk amish, making your own chips in a shed with a quartz tube furnace

the problem with “just a tool” is that using it will inherently change how you act.
Best concise way i can put it is that it’s like how better hardware has largely just resulted in software not really caring about efficiency any longer.

have you looked at simplex? at a glance it seems robust and it actually works without much fiddling which is nice.