My man, if you could not find anyone who liked Kevin Spacey’s work, then there’d be no one to say he was any good—it’s a self-answering question.

What if majority opinion is decided by emotional manipulation by those with the most money

It is, they’re currently burning the world down for fun, and I don’t like it.

People don’t like Kevin Spacey very much. I dunno, seems like that’s already been decided.

I am aware that you’ve only ever seen the word “morally” in Mein Kampf, apparently.

If you hate AI slop comments you should also hate human slop comments at least to a degree.

I’m not buying into the false equivalency. I dislike both, I guess, but I hate AI way more. Which is deserved because AI is waaay worse.

This is one application where the primitive verbal intelligence of AI could be useful as a tool because it can be broadly applied. To raise the bar.

You mean by avoiding it? Great, we’re already doing that. I’m already doing that. You should have no problems with me because we are, hand in hand, “raising the bar.”

You are aware that you can like something that also makes you uncomfortable, yes?

Always being argued with by people who have no idea what I’m talking about.

Artists need to create something new with or despite the new tools if they want to stay relevant.

Logistically? Maybe. But morally? Like, eat shit, man.

https:// .youtube.com/@ChloeVSHistory

Ew.

If enough people collectively decide that AI art is art, then it kind of is. That’s the nature of social constructs.

I reject this. Loudly and with purpose. Art is not art without a conscience to speak it, to make it. This is half descriptive, half declarative. I have no desire to cede any ground to these solipsistic, inhuman, vampire people.

The mere idea that your wife could be replaced with a rubber doll if it were made convincing enough is… fucking absurd, and worthy of the most extreme contempt imaginable.

After like 2 years of arguing with AI dipshits, the conclusion I’ve come to (and it’s not really that novel) is that art is as any other language, like English, or body language, and I mean that literally, like body language, and its value is in whether you like listening to the person speaking.

This goes for SpongeBob, Dune, The Lord of the Rings, Reservoir Dogs, “Epic Fart Sounds 10 Hours” on Youtube, and any child’s crayon, stick-figure drawing of their own house.

If an image can’t be distinguished from what AI produces, isn’t it obviously slop too and not art either?

I can’t distinguish AlteredEgo’s comment from AI, so I think it may just be slop by default. Yeah. Unfortunately, he has nothing interesting to say—I’ve literally heard these exact words from like a hundred other places, so… I guess he’s just not worth talking to. What a boring guy. Really an NPC, if I’ve ever seen one.

Try to be more original, Ego. Originality, yeah. Then I think you might be worth listening to.

No, those would be people in the second. Snake oil drinkers and astrologists.

Elon Musk is the world’s best programmer. Ah! He makes so much money! 🤑

You disagree that women are socially pressured into being more apologetic and agreeable?

You may as well tell me an apple doesn’t fall when you let it go.

A refusal to acknowledge social trends is actually a very sexist (or homophobic, or racist) position to hold because it is a de facto defense of the status quo.

A person cannot hope to change society for the better while refusing to see society for what it is.

Wait, what’s wrong with Next?
I’m actually asking, I’ve never used it.

Oh fucking hell, we’ve reached the “artisan” stage of the argument.

You’re being hired as one, so I don’t understand what all this contempt is for. I didn’t realize you hated your profession so much.

If you spend only 30-seconds looking at my 20-line changes, I’m just going to skip you and hit the merge button myself. What value add are you possibly providing. A check mark?

I know what the services do. I know which services communicate. I know what the request flow should look like.

Oh, I see. So, by

“Create a sequence diagram showing the interaction between these five services for this request flow”

You did not mean that the AI would discover these connections for you, something I might consider to be saved time, you meant that you would write:

Service A connects to service B. Service A connects to service C. Service B connects to service D. Service D connects to service E with the label “Once per day”. …

You know, this is starting to look like a fairly typical mermaid diagram. I suppose you’re counting the semi-colons as saved time?

You keep trying to erase that distinction because your entire “ticket-to-implementation” continuum depends on it not existing.

My friend, my beloved brother in arms, it’s not just Suno. This “screwdriver” you’re fond of does not live up to my standards. At all. I can only assume that you are satisfied by the tangled mess of bullshit I’ve seen these AI-programmers produce because you care fuck-all about the work you’re doing.

If I have it generate a sequence diagram, and it comes out wrong, and I correct it, and I have it generate a new sequence diagram, and it comes out wrong, and I have to correct it, and I have it generate a new sequence diagram, and it comes out wrong again—I may as well just have made the damn thing myself. This has been my experience every fucking time.

You are free to let the buzzards spread your garden seeds for you, I suppose. But not in my garden. I would ban you from my repos so fucking fast.

I’m not asking you to find a job with purpose, I’m asking you to make purpose. Don’t just sit and suffer a death in the meraphorical sense. Breathe life into the world—the world needs music.

I worked at an arcade for 8 years, I’m perfectly familiar with soul-sucking work.

See, I know you can’t understand what’s being said because you’ve already relegated yourself to the role of “reviewer” and are no longer an artisan invested in the state of your craft. You have abandoned the art that supposedly makes your career.

and notice “service B doesn’t call service C there” without first spending twenty minutes lovingly dragging boxes and arrows around myself.

My guy, dragging the boxes is the easy part. If you already know what these services do, what is the AI accomplishing for you? You’re already at a 0.9 on the ticket-to-implementation continuum. Like actually, what the fuck are you talking about?

I once encountered a screwdriver that was unsuitable for hammering in a nail.

Profound.

No, really—I’ve never thought about screwdrivers before. It’s really eye-opening to think about just how much technology is like hammers.

If only some tech-head were around to explain tools to me, maybe I could have convinced my dad to stop misapplying the heroin to his elbow every night.

There is like a very basic topological fact here that you are just failing to grasp.

Specificity of requirements and effort of implementation are two completely different things.

No, they’re not. Implementations are just requirements with very high specificity. When you roll your eyes over the horribly inept dogshit your AI produces and then correct it, you are adding specificity to the system. This can proceed ad infinitum until you end up just doing the whole thing yourself—which I have done with Suno, because Suno is garbage.

You’ve defined AI output as shit and then concluded that anyone accepting AI output must therefore not care about quality.

It’s a rule that’s served me well. I think I’ll keep doing it.

“Create a sequence diagram showing the interaction between these five services for this request flow” can take seconds to describe and considerably longer to manually construct.

It is extremely funny you would put this up as an example.

I will have to manually construct it anyway because that is literally the only way I’ll know if the AI-that-fucks-up has fucked it up or not.

By the power of democracy vested in me, I choose to make the world as I see it.

But I am human, hehe. That’s true. You are correct.

Nah, I think that AI users ought to be shamed and mocked publically. It doesn’t really bother me that they find this frustrating.