this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
329 points (94.8% liked)
Fuck AI
6318 readers
1024 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
So you're saying I will get more promotions by deskilling myself? Yeah, sure, that makes sense...
Ahhhhhhhh look at me I've lost the ability to read code!!!!!! The AI stole my powers! It's space jam 3 ai invasion!!!!!
Here's a hint for you in life. Very very few employers hire employees for their ability to quickly sort a tree or other highly technical problems. They are hired for their ability to translate business needs into tech while dealing with whatever arbitrary constraints while not being a screeching dick about it. And this only becomes more true as you get more senior roles.
My job as a lead, staff engineer, and eventually director involves far more pull requests, teaching, getting nerds to stop screeching at each other and talking through shit. To ask do we even need to do this work.
I still code better than most of my juniors. I still understand AWS better then them. But I'm not doing 95% of the code.
Pretending that skill atrophy isn't a real issue doesn't make it go away. The more a developer outsources his brain to an LLM, the more skills they lose over time. I experienced it first hand, because I wasn't always so strictly against "AI" and used it extensively for many months. But I noticed that I wasn't able to solve pretty simple coding tasks after a while anymore, tasks which were second nature to me before. Anyone who mindlessly boosts AI without even taking this into consideration, isn't a good developer.
This statement is a nothingburger. You can't hype yourself up to make yourself more legitimate, anyone can just claim things on the internet. In order to assess if you are truly a good coder, another senior who doesn't use AI would have to look over your code. The results might surprise you.
I'll leave it at that, you completely jumped on the hypetrain, you aren't even interested in a real discussion and my time is too valuable to spend it on such trivialities. I just feel sorry for the juniors working under your management and I hope you'll not be out of a job when OpenAI, Anthropic and all of the other big "AI" companies eventually go down the drain.