Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I'm asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
For coding I find LLMs legitimately revolutionary. I've tried letting DeepSeek & some local models like Qwen and Gemma loose on various projects to implement features and improvements and so far most of the time it didn't disappoint.
In the last couple of weeks I've been updating an old third party bot plugin for a game by prompting various behavior changes I'd like to see and it's a night & day difference to its original state. If I had done this by hand the time it took would've been multiple magnitudes longer, it'd have been more error-prone (especially since it's a C++ project written in classical C style, which is just UB galore) and I likely would've lost the enthusiasm to work on it by now.