My company is strongly pushing AI. There are lot of experiments, demos, and effort from decently smart people about integrating it into our workflows. There are some impressive victories that have been made with AI tooling producing some things fast. I am not in denial about this. And the SE department is tracking improved productivity (as measured by # of tickets being done, I guess?)

The problem is I hate AI. I hate every fucking thing about it. Its primary purpose, regardless of what utility is gained, is spam. I think it's obvious how google search results are spam, how spam songs and videos are being produced, etc. But even bad results from AI that have to be discarded, IMO, are spam.

And that isn't even getting into all massive amounts of theft to train the data, or the immense amounts of electricity it takes to do training and inference, as well as run, all this crap. Nor the psychosis being inflicted onto people who emplace their trust into these systems. Nor the fact that these tools are being used to empower authoritarian regimes to track vulnerable populations, both here (in the USA) and abroad. And all this AI shit serves to enrich the worst tech moguls and to displace people like artists and people like myself, a programmer.

I'm literally being told at my job that I should view myself basically as an AI babysitter, and that AI has been unambiguously proven in the industry, so the time for wondering about it, experimenting with it, or opposing it is over. The only fault and flaw is my (i.e. any given SE's) unwillingness to adapt and onboard.

Looking for advice from people who have had to navigate similar crap. Because I feel like I'm at a point where I must adapt or eventually get fired.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9715658

I'd love suggestions for apps for note taking that comrades use, ideally just free/open source ones that work on multiple platforms and can sync between devices.

Hi everybody, this is the JPlus development team.

JPlus is a Java superset programming language, extending standard Java syntax with additional features. So far, we have introduced null-safety and boilerplate code generation features. Currently, we are planning to add Named Parameter support to JPlus. This feature allows specifying parameter names explicitly when calling methods or constructors.

The point we would like to discuss is whether to support Default Values.

Option A: Named Parameter only

• Pros: Simpler syntax, minimal implementation and learning overhead

• Cons: Call sites may become longer in some situations

Option B: Named Parameter + Default Value

• Pros: More concise code, allows omitting some arguments when calling

• Cons: Can make code slightly harder to read if too many defaults are used

We would like to gather opinions on whether default values are truly necessary in practical coding scenarios.

If you want to learn more about JPlus, please refer to the links below:

• JPlus Github Repository: https://github.com/nieuwmijnleven/JPlus
• Make Your Java Code Null-Safe Without Rewriting
• Try apply in JPlus with built-in boilerplate elimination