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I understand this comment. AI sometimes saves a ton of mental power and time when I’m stuck on an issue. It can give some really good suggestions. Also, AI is a godsend for frontend shit. I don’t care what y’all say, I’m never touching CSS and HTML ever again. lmao.
Nah, wouldn't do that. CSS needs to be well designed to function properly, you need actual developers for that or you'll screw over your users.
But yeah, to give quick pointers and ideas to flesh out, it's reasonably useful
If that is enough to warrant it's extreme energy use, the spread of AI slop everywhere, the pollution, the uncontrolled datacenter expansions, the explosion in hardware costs it created, the countless death and suffering it caused through AI psychosis, the AI childporn bots (hello grok, are you still the world's biggest child porn producer or did Elmo finally reign you in to again be mecha Hitler?), the....
Long story short, AI will likely end this world in a long list of fucked up ways, I don't think it's worth it
Until then, I'll use it as a suggestion tool, not much more
Bro, what the hell. Lmao. “Hey AI is horrible in all ways and is doing harm to the planet and people and kids, but I’ll use it regardless. Hear me I’m a good guy. I hate AI, but I’ll use it”. That’s virtu signaling, isn’t it?
It's not virtue signalling, I know very well what I'm doing is hypocritical at best, but it's also unavoidable for me. For one, I'm using it like this at work where they'd love nothing better than for me to start vibe coding. This is the compromise I've been able to make so far.
No judgement. I just thought it was funny.
Well yeah
I'm not proud of it, in any case :)