People Are Becoming "Sloppers" Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

It never went away.

Sincerely, someone who works in IT support.

People who know what they're doing don't use these "tools", it's the fools and morons out there who have no idea how anything works that use these things and they don't double check them before they implement their crap code.

Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it's already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.

I've asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn't working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.

I've asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.

What a waste of time and resources.

Claude4 works for me for writing simple code, and brainstorming. I expect it to be wrong most of the time, but it works better than google when getting started with something I have no experience with.

nah i'm right there with you. they're a terrific novelty but generally not terribly useful for getting information. they can write but checking and editing them takes longer than just writing it yourself. i'm just ignoring them while i wait for the bubble to play out, just like with crypto and NFTs.

I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.

It's like there's a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.

Everyone else is broken.

I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.

Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.

Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.

I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.

I'm still not ready for round one. Can we go back?

I worry that people who rely on AI will become skilled in making it seem like they aren't. Fortunately a lot of them don't seem very good at that yet.

I've done a few job interviews where it was very clear the interviewee was using Chat GPT or something to answer almost every question. But there may soon come a day when it's not obvious, and then we waste time hiring someone incapable of critical thinking who types proprietary company information into an LLM prompt.

Certainly! You believe that this is very not good. You think that this will lead to the end of human civilisation. You would rather kill whomever is responsible than keep having to watch the steady decline. As a solution you should listen to more Kesha.

You feel compelled to write a 12 page missive on why cars are awful, Zohran Mamdami is the true messiah, and AI is worse than the bubonic plague.

You can turn off ai results

at least ddg respects the "never show me this" toggle.

Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I've been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.

The magic 7 ball strategy had a survivorship basis. Only competent people succeeded in using it

I think those people using magic 8, succeeded by not using their emotions to make career decisions, but coolly and rationally handled what was in front of them randomly .

As a consequence they played less power games while being very aggressive. Which is a winning strategy sometimes .

Llm could not replicate it, too much instructions

I eavesdropped on a project manager really trying to convince upper management to make IT let him install an AI program that (by what I heard) would read from the screen and interact with our PMS. Straight up suggesting to have himself replaced.

I wouldn't say this compares to say the Satanic Panic, but I mean look at how it's being advertised - especially Apple Intelligence (seriously look it up) - this is very much the way they expect AI to be used (write my friend a birthday text, etc).

Not to mention the real material concerns over the deployment of now even more massive and power intensive datacenters, running on gas turbines because the grid can't feasibly power it, to feed psychophantic language generators designed to keep users hooked and reaffirming even their most violent thought, even leading kids to suicide by way of delusions - again because of how these models are designed in particular, and how they're pushed to consumers. To say there's absolutely no actionable concern is a farce.

I'm glad you don't know many of these people but I do, and I have to work with them

i've stopped bothering asking things of like half my contact list because they just send back copypasta of gpt output.

Is this a copypasta? It should be a copypasta.

I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write "I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet". Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is "no good", you are not using it correctly.