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I will either starve or use AI (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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There is no in between.

For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can't avoid AI anymore.

It's physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni.

I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain.

So I'm at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I'm a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs.

Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better?

Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.

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[–] -1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I know nothing about coding but surely there are degrees to AI's use as a tool? I've heard it can produce slop but is it always necessarily so? I've heard people using it for debugging, that seems reasonable to someone with my level of knowledge.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    That's usually cope. Believe me those "use responsibly" goons are mostly liars.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    That really is a shame. I, who got a merciful "D" in my pascal class, could only slop code with those tools but I wanted to believe someone like Torvalds was actually using them to help him do whatever it was he was going to do anyway only faster.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 days ago

    Depends on what they are lying about. If they are lying about using it responsibly then they are goons, but truly responsible use can be safe. Oversimplified example: a for loop printing all digits in order is just as good if generated by most models as when written by hand. How much you can realistically extrapolate from this example depends the model you use and the scrutiny you apply to the output. Now the ethics and implications of using LLMs are a different matter but it's not a black and white issue for sure. IMHO after over a decade in the industry.

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