I am so glad I didn’t pivot to a CS job when I was given the chance. My future is locked in!
Edit: Yes, both my knees and back pain me, any day now AI will figure out the perfect chiropractic regime to soothe me.
seeing new cool software pop up was so cool, now everytime i see it i’m like “it’s vibecoded slop isn’t it” and the worst part is you don’t even need to check because IT ALWAYS IS!!!
assume that every new software is llm-generated garbage, and don’t bother checking, because you’ll be right literally 99% of the time. it feels like programmers don’t exist anymore. those who were fine with ai became sloperators incapable of thinking for themselves, and those who weren’t left the field entirely. with very few exceptions.
They don’t seem to want to hire us anymore either 😞
I’m an exception. I very very rarely use AI in any of my projects. I even made a policy banning it that I use in most of my projects:
when you say “very, very rarely use AI”, what is the exception? is it an LLM or something else?
The only thing I’ve used it for is this:
https://forge.sciactive.com/sciactive/thumbelina/src/branch/main/render_thumb.py
So up until last week, I could have said I never use it, but alas, I took the easy route and ruined my streak. Honestly, I’m thinking about learning python just to rewrite that file.
I love port87 BTW. Amazing stuff, it’s exactly what I’ve wanted from email for a LONG ass time. Your LLM policy was just the cherry on top.
Thank you so much! :D That’s so awesome to hear!
Hell yeah
For anyone who doesn’t know, there’s a website that tracks projects that have a no ai use statement
Also there’s the Starlight Network’s NoAI List, the Open Slopware list by Ethical FOSS, the LLM-afflicted Software list by AI Alternatives, and the Brib’s Slopfree Software Index.
Nah, we’re still here. You just have to look for us.
You literally caught me in the process of leaving the field. I’m gonna take on the role of doing UI/UX optimizing in our applications in the future. At least if everything goes right. The whole advent of LLMs soured coding for me
Yeah, I’m more into my slow cooker than software these days.
i decided to learn crochet, and you know what it’s remarkably fucking similar in some ways
computing did arise from looms, so this is quite poeticPlease don’t make those blankets that are just a 20 kilo pile of knots that don’t keep anybody warm and you can’t throw out until your auntie dies.
I feel like that’s a ver pessimistic and anti human approach to life. I just don’t check and continue to be happy :3
I disagree, ignoring a problem will just make it worse in my opinion
What’s the problem, some developers loosing out on the intrinsic joy of creating a project on your own? I don’t think that assuming every project that comes out is made with ai will help fight against ai companies.
Watching a field that’s been a major part of me for the majority of my life being butchered and made a mockery of. It’s the same situation as what happened to artists but it’s harder to defend against because the AI generated codebases often do work at this point so people will ignore the AI.
The fact though is that code IS an art form to me and others that are in tech out of a genuine interest rather than the money. I used to enjoy reading through the code for interesting new projects but when its all AI generated there’s just no point anymore and it’s deeply, deeply depressing
There’s a million other reasons to avoid AI projects but thats the one that hits me the most
I meant the “don’t check and be happy” part
i’ve been burned too many times by badly written slopware to afford to ignore it… 2 weeks ago all my handwritten notes for uni vanished from the app i was using on my tablet, for what felt like no reason, i look up the repo and lo and behold a bunch of deepseek commits. that app had a bunch of weird problems but this was the last i was willing to deal with.
i said fuck it and i’m using paper notebooks with pencils and highlighters now. at least that won’t turn to slop on me. i don’t trust software anymore. not when any previously trustworthy software will just turn to shit on you because the maintainers caught acute ai psychosis
It’s wise to record history when it is rapidly revised.
Although, there are still good programmers who will reject AI even if they have to die because of that.
There’s Starlight Network’s NoAI List, the Open Slopware list by Ethical FOSS, the LLM-afflicted Software list by AI Alternatives, the NoAIList.org website, and the Brib’s Slopfree Software Index.
I wish I could be willfully ignorant, life would be so much simpler if I wasn’t aware of all of the clustertrucks, and wouldn’t be thinking further ahead than my next meal… But alas, suffering it is
That’s dangerous. Things coded by AI tend to not be very secure. Also, they’re definitely going to get abandoned when AI is priced at more than what it costs to run it. (Right now, every AI company loses money when you use their product.)
Me after ordering pizza delivery: look at this pizza I just made!
THAT’S LITERALLY HOW IT FEELS LMAO
OMG, LOVE IT
I want this to be turned into an animated series!!!
There was an attempt years ago, but it sadly never came to fruition.
We’ll have to revive it!
I like it, I’d like to read more, do you have the source?
The conclusion to this one:
Loving that ending! Used the gems to destroy the gems
https://www.goblinscomic.org/ I believe!
I should read it again…
Bangin’ sermon my man
You made a prompt that produced a pizza delivered to you, you made the pizza!
The forbidden butthole…
spoiler
Because they just produce shit
The Claude logo does deserve special highlighting in this, because it really looks like they copied this rendition from Kurt Vonnegut:
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so vehemently opposed to AI, because that way I could make an android app without having to read google’s documentation. As bad as android is as a user, reading the developer documentation makes me genuinely want to strangle those responsible.
I just learned there are reams of documents on the exact way every app from now on needs to add in code to pad the top and bottom of the screen to accommodate whomever at google decided to make apps draw underneath the menu bar.
I’m normally against capital punishment, but this is an exception.
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This is exactly how I felt about someone telling me about an open source low level CD dumping tool. Double whammy for having coderabbit.
I cannot wait until the inevitable future where our knight in shining armour leads us to victory and is able to educate everyone properly on why generative AI is something to be shunned on not just a societal level, but a worldly level.
every single time
I’m gonna be crucified for this but I actually somewhat enjoy this IRC bouncer despite its AI use. It was way too easy to setup on my home server. I haven’t looked into many alternatives yet but from when I used it on iOS, it was kinda addictive…
edit: i made some actual effort to use something else (took hours whatever), and finally hooked soju with halloy. Honestly looks about the same as what I was using before, just without the guilt I guess.
I haven’t looked into many alternatives yet
It’s a 40 fucking year old protocol. I have no words. This was the first thing you tried?
I’ve used ZNC, anyways, suggest an alternative
Znc is good, soju is another. IIUC the 4 month old project you linked actually uses soju for its bouncer.
This is such a common pattern with vibe coded slop it’s insane.
“I built a blorbo compiler from scratch”
actually requires the unmaintained blorbo-comp library
blorbo-comp is also vibe coded and its code references open-blorbo every other comment
even the fucking LLMs can’t be arsed to do any work, i guess that makes sense if they’re trained on humans who immediately merrily replaced themselves…
Awesome, I’m sincerely proud of you.
