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developer abandons AI tools essay

I'm done using AI

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Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Jeni Tennison Jed Brown Abstract Tesseract Baldur Bjarnason

“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”

“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”

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4 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator Mary Branscombe Abstract Tesseract
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: So at what point do people let themselves admit this is a criminal conspiracy to engage in cybercrimes against other corporations?
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It certainly doesn’t help that the US government a) has personalist financial grift reasons to go along with this, and b) wants to push offensive cyberops. (I’d say they’d love the plausible deniab…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Abstract Tesseract
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I had lately found my anger about technofascism to be so much that it was making it hard for me to feel in community with other tech people—just in general, not even ones who support fascism—so see…
Abstract Tesseract: yeah I get that it's not sustainable for everyone to be angry about everything all the time, but given how much these communities have historically been willing to overlook, it does make me feel be…
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