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Almost a graduated here, here’s my small rant (kinda).

For context: I rarely use LLMs cuz there’s no fun on vibe coding, not to mention the shit ton of problems its usage carries (economical, environmental, social, ethical, skills decline, etc)

The other day I was in the classroom using my Actual Intelligence (AI) to do a python project, when a group of randoms came by and asked what I was doing, they were looking at me like if a was some sort of caveman, because apparently I’m one of the few guys that still codes by hand.

Sometimes I feel bad for them, it’s depressing to see everyone getting stupider so quickly, but I can relate to that feeling of wanting to do absolutely nothing from day to day.

In most of my classes, I’m the only one answering questions to the point that sometimes I get banned from answering (although I don’t know if it’s because everyone is kinda shy or if it’s truly because they don’t have an idea of what’s being talked about)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I mean, yeah, most people here dislike/hate AI for diversity of reasons, most commonly for:

    • Taking up PC components that don’t even exist
    • Taking up green land
    • Pollute nearby areas with audible noise
    • Pirate and suck in all the human knowledge just to sell it back to you
    • Effectively DDoS-ing hundreds of thousands of websites and forcing them to implement captcha-like screening
    • Frying (even more) new generation’s attention spans and melt their ability to think by themselves
    • Ruining human interaction on the internet and filling it up with shit content
    • Corporates forcing AI on everything for the sake of having it
    • Threatening to take people’s jobs

    And tbf, most of those issues come from brain-rot executives and corporates.

    It’s okay if you like it and you find it helpful, it’s a tool after all. Like any other tool, on the right hands might boost productivity and help with repetitive tasks.

    The main problem is that most people will think that you support any of the above downsides by liking it.

    I’m a bit curious, would you share your pro AI counterpoints?

    I know, username doesn’t check out

    Edit: grammar

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    Hey guys, I’d like your input on this.

    I’ve just received this email for a collaboration proposal, which I don’t think looks sketchy at all.

    For a bit more of context, I’m a CS college student about to graduate, and I decided to build a portfolio with academic projects and a small CV which I hosted in GitHub pages.

    I’d normally not answer because they send me emails to my non visible email, but this one is on my public email (and wasn’t flagged as spam, could be that both are gmail?).

    I googled their email and found what a think it’s their GitHub profile, name and location check out, however they don’t have any repository nor commits.

    What should I do? Is this an scam?

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    Anyways, I’ll probably decline since it’ll too much for me as a first part time job.

    Thank y’all who replied

     

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