schmatzler wrote on Today, 10:57:

gmaverick2k wrote on Today, 06:34:

AI is ushering in a new wave of retro interest

All of the AI-generated projects on here just make me more disinterested.

Same.

I think while there are probably some people using LLMs who just want to make something that works kinda for themselves (but don't want to learn how to), there are probably a whole lot more people just looking to get attention and praise who hate the process of creation.
after all, it's something that can give an impression of good software or of someone being smart, and it can replace the act of actually making things, even if the code underneath is so unreadable that my child self would've cringed to see it.

Then those attention-seeking people, who normally would've been stopped by having to actually make stuff, flood already small communities and make it look like everyone's addicted to slop. and then from there people look at that, see mountains of low-effort trash and just lose interest.
It wouldn't surprise me if it'd eventually lead to the death of a community if a space gets flooded with LLM generated stuff and nothing is done to stop it.

gmaverick2k wrote on Today, 13:25:

AI is a socialist tool.

Quite the opposite. LLMs take the intellectual labor of billions and convert it into a form that can be privatized and commodified so capitalists can charge for access.

VanillaFairy wrote on Today, 13:51:

It wouldn't surprise me if it'd eventually lead to the death of a community if a space gets flooded with LLM generated stuff and nothing is done to stop it.

I do wonder what will become of VOGONS in a few years, AI is already sucking the joy out of this place right now. What a lot of people don't realize is that talented human people are fed up with AI, so they leave open-source projects and stop contributing to them - which leads to stagnation and the end of innovation. You can only do so much by being a meat proxy and making threads about it.

On the bright side, there's a good chance that all of these one-shotted projects will be abandoned when Claude starts costing more than 20$ per month. I'm looking forward to seeing people use their brains again to solve hard problems, at least there'll be someone to admire and congratulate for their work again.