There are actual GOOD ways to implement self checkout though…

BAD: Me scanning individual items at a grocery store, LARP’ing as a cashier… terrible experience for all… i’m literally doing someone else’s job for free…

GOOD: me throwing my entire basket of purchases into some kind of RFID scanning bin (not sure the exact technology behind it), the screen instantly shows me the list of items and total, and i tap and pay and leave. Actual time saver, and i dont feel like i’m doing a cashier job.

In both cases, it results in a loss of jobs, which sucks… but at least #2 isnt infuriating from a customer POV

Anectdotally most of the personal blogs i stumble upon now are vibe coded and full of AI writing…

They ain’t Russian…

They’ll Finnish when they’re ready…

Where is he aggressive? What ideology?

The only ideology linus follows is “dont break userspace”

is the linux kernel “the best”? because they are using AI tooling. Linus actually threatened to use LLM to maintain sparse if nobody stepped up…

is curl the best? because the creator of curl has also used/accepted LLM code…

if the creators of two of “the best” pieces of software ever made are accepting (NOT embracing or promoting… just accepting) LLM code… maybe it’s time for us to think about the possibility that this MIGHT be a useful tool instead of everyone just yelling “SLOP SLOP SLOP” everywhere…

I never shut out opposing opinions… i merely said that i’m irritated by the anti-AI purists…

1. "All AI is facist and you are a facist/far-right/nazi if you use even a little bit of it " (not what you said, but a very common statement on lemmy)

2. “AI is a potentially useful technology that has a lot of negatove externalities. Let’s work together to reduce the negatives and take the power back from big tech.”

Which one of those stances sounds more like “Shutting out the opinion of people”?

Ok, so i’m far-right (just call me a nazi) because i dont have a 100% blind hatred of AI?

this is exactly what i’m talking about… this kind of holier than thou attitude makes enemies out of potential allies

I’m sure if we had a reasonable discussion about AI we’d find 90% of our opinions align… i’m generally very against AI as it is now…

But instead you’ve already labelled me as just another pro-AI nazi because i dont pass your purity test

Its not about putting linus on a pedestal… its about these anti-AI purists declaring everyone who uses AI a nazi and all code is slop. Big tough guys saying they wont use software with even a single line of generated code.

Go ahead, fork the linux kernel then… these people will never be able to follow through with their purism, unless they go full templeOS mode

I dislike AI overall, but what i’m starting to dislike almost as much are these anti-AI purists who are holier than everyone

I’ll still shoot birds with my DSLR, but the phone has replaced 90% of my vacation photography

I love how drivers only care about orwellian overreach when it infringes in their right to text and drive and kill people…

The vanilla copilot bundled in windows is completely useless and not suitable for enterprise use …

Any company serious about productivity gain would use something else …

I am by no means a pro-AI techbro, but my company invested into making a bespoke AI solution (yes it connects to one of the big boys on the backend) and it makes a world of difference.

I think a lot of the AI hate comes from people who have never used a paid model coupled with a good frontend…

Yeah, i’m not an idiot… i’ve already considered all those points about the downsides of using AI at work … like you said… play the game

if you really want to work on taking down Capitalism, organize your labor

How do you know i"m not using my free time at work to do exactly that?

you made a lot of assumptions about people who use AI at work …

Seriously though, what “skills” are you building by learning how to use LLMs at your corporate job?

i’m not learning any skills… i’m offloading some work on to AI so that i can do other stuff on company time…

Isn’t that what we should all aspire to? To destroy capitalism from the inside?

I agree…

But check out the other discussions on lemmy about AI …

if you’re not 100% against it, you’re a facist

I agree with you…

But be prepared to be labelled a facist on lemmy

apparently there’s no such thing as a neutral technology or tool

I think its pretty clear that an OG hacker like linus using AI as a helpful assistant is very different from a junior dev using it as a crutch

The question now is how to develop proper software engineers who have the old school skills first and foremmost, and then are able to use the assistance of an AI

Using AI is not the same as vibe coding.

i’ve been in dozens of lemmy threads that disagree…

There’s a huge portion of lemmy who think even one token of AI is unacceptable for any reason

I’m in a thread where the entire idea of AI/LLMs has been declared facist, with ZERO legitimate use cases other than facism

If we havent reached that point, we’re sure headed there…

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but you’re comparing disney to a local cafe…

these guys aren’t just willy-nilly increasing the price of coffee for funsies. a lot of these issues have to do with supply chain, commercial rents, and billionaire created issues… the real solution isn’t just to stay home and let your local cafe go bankrupt… need to solve the big picture issues that are causing inflation without the wage increases that we all need.

the point of speed bumps isn’t to slow to a crawl just before you hit them and then carry on speeding (which is what everyone does…)

if you’re actually going the speed limit, it shouldn’t damage anything…