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A lot of people truly enjoyed the craft and creativity of building something. That is being stripped away. The building is being outsourced now. In some cases, the design too. Everything they once enjoyed and took pride in is being done by machines now. That is not a good feeling.

Imagine you are a master craftsman, a furniture builder. You sourced the wood, designed the furniture, built it by hand, took pride in your work. You adjusted your design or how you used wood based on a knot present in the lumber you got, made custom jigs to improve your efficiency or accuracy. You built skills, you were mastering a craft.

Now, suddenly, you manage a factory of outsourced workers who mass produce cheap particle board furniture. At the end of the day both the hand made dresser and the particle board one store your underwear, one is significantly cheaper (even if it falls apart on you after a few years.) so the cheaper one wins and that is what everyone starts producing. Good enough often wins, especially when cost is involved.

Some of these crafts people may have never got to the point of being masters yet either, they were working their way towards it, but now it looks like those skills may not be valued by the market, did they waste their most valuable years working towards a goal that no longer exists? A lot of these people in this situation are also millennials that are currently or nearing mid-life, hard to pivot to a new career at this point. That is not a good feeling. Perhaps a new kind of mid-life crisis.

A lot of the people I know that are excited about AI weren't craftspeople in the same sense, the process of designing and writing code was just a means to an end, they just wanted something to store their socks at the end of the assembly line regardless of how it was made, the cheaper the better.

The worse part is not only is it a craft, its a living and so even when the times are rough you still have responsibilities, housing, family, healthcare so you are forced to use AI even when you know you are feeding the very machine that will grow big enough to eat you.

Some craftspeople will say that the AI makes them better at their craft. They can understand and learn things they never could have done before. I think this is the ideal scenario and believed this at first as well but four problems emerged for me:

1. I kept getting lazier and lazier, letting the LLM do more and more until I wasn't learning I was just trying to get to the end goal.

2. The majority of my team pressed the easy-button slot machine and wholesale let the AI do everything, its practically impossible to keep up with the massive PRs and unbelievable code churn in a team like this especially with every level of management (who are not code crafts people) want that outcome.

3. I forgot how to do simple things, syntax, standard library functions, useful libraries. I started forgetting it, I kept finding myself reaching to ask the LLM how to do this or that, things I knew how to do by muscle memory only months prior.

4. You are giving immense amounts of training data to the LLM companies. Its already been proven they give 0 fucks about copyright in any sense, your code, your ideas, your products go right back into the LLM code blender in some shape or form.

Anyone reading this far that is the same kind of crafts person that I'm describing I will tell you what I'm doing about it. I'm going to starve the machine. I've cancelled all my LLM subscriptions, I've deleted the apps. I'm going back to hand coding. I don't care about the consequences. I will find a way to provide for myself and my family. I might get "left behind" but so be it, I'll do it on my own terms. I will no longer lose the sense of who I am for companies and people that don't care about me, or even humanity in the first place. Guess who's with us? Artists and Authors other creatives hate this shit too, software is a mix of creativity and engineering so its not as black-and-white as other fields but you get to choose what it is for yourself.

Good luck out there.

For a hot second I thought this was Poolside.FM (Which I guess now is Poolsuite...) and was very curious. Now not so much.

Also wondering, maybe they're just trying to get more publicity in general?

Do github stars really mean much anymore anyway?

But, think of the shareholders!

This is absolutely insane, if the article is truly accurate they literally had NO evidence besides the user name (which was wrong.)

The first time I got asked by a site if I wanted to use a passkey I immediately googled what they were and... never really found the answer, not in the 5mins I devoted to being distracting from my task at hand anyway.

"magic fairy dust to login to apps." is the most accurate description I've seen.

Unlike a password or a TOTP token, I know how those work, I know its my responsibility to keep track of them. If my passkey is on my phone what happens if I lose my phone? Do I need a unique passkey per device? How do I rotate them? What if a device gets stolen?

I'm so glad I'm not alone in thinking these are so poorly explained.

Not sure if this is a joke or not, but I have heard of women actually making money selling JUST feet pics. Is it really that popular of a fetish? Or are the people with the fetish just willing to pay a ton for it? Genuinely curious and this is probably the wrong place to even ask...

And I also trust myself to keep my secrets better than this whole pretend security theater too.

I've never worked at an organization that handled their user's data/privacy/security even remotely close to how I handle my own and I wouldn't even consider myself all that paranoid. I have worked for some companies that really really should care too - there's just no incentive to really care and those in the org that try too do so will get ignored.

The data breach letters I get in the mail a few times a year back me up on this.

> its safer for most people to have a login that just works, even at the cost of some privacy.

Respectfully, I disagree in a time when all your data is being slurped up and resold constantly I hate any additional costs to my privacy.

> People trying to remember passwords is a pretty bad security situation.

But that's their problem, not mine. I'm an adult and I use a password manager.

I would literally be homeless before I went back to a company that fired me to replace me with AI, then asked me to come back.

t-shirts on instagram get me a lot, I also get ads for Temu for things that look interesting (Weird tech gadgets usually) but I refuse to use any site that forces me to do some stupid "spin the wheel for a coupon gag" every time I visit so have never actually even looked at an item on Temu. I also get extremely well tuned ebay product ads on instagram but I don't usually buy anything through that flow (I poke around on ebay enough on my own...)

I sometimes do, Instagram ads are exceptionally well tuned to my interest about 25%-50% of the time. It's usually unique very niche t-shirts which I'm always on the hunt for.

I can't see the original comment as it was flagged and seems to be hidden but I've considered coaching related things I'm just very skeptical of those being helpful.