Trust me, as much shit as I talk about AI, I still use it even for personal things and see that there's a real technology here that will stick around. It's just hard to have a real conversation about that when it's muddied with "omg we let it loose to hack everything and it did", and "don't worry if it destroys the planet, Q4 will be great", and "don't worry if q4 is terrible and we're losing billions, because we might make AGI".

Not only that but they shoved it into everything and started producing as much slop as possible, while they convinced seemingly every CEO in the world they have to produce slop too. I see engineers who hate their lives now, who are being told to automate every aspect of their job until they're no longer required, and they don't care about what they make anymore because they feel so disconnected from their code.

We could have had a rational boost with this technology as a cool coding assistant, but instead we got whatever the fuck this blood sacrifice economy is. Meanwhile, some companies are shocked that no one wants to read their 100 new ai generated blog posts.