Aggressively block every community that has to do with news or has news posted to it. Then, if you're on a mobile app that supports keyword filtering, aggressively filter out every word of news you don't want to see. Then aggressively block users if they post or comment news you don't want to see. After doing that for a few weeks or months you'll start to see a normal newsfeed. But Lemmy is nearly unusable without it.
This is the strategy I use to avoid contact with a people group from a specific shithole country and it seems to work decent. Although there's always posts that sneak through the cracks.
There's no push back from the developers at my company or the developers that I interact with. We have been embracing it for the use cases that AI is good at. There is lots of manual effort that us software developers don't like doing that AI automates easily. I believe the mass layoffs that companies are doing are using AI as a convenient excuse in uncertain economic conditions.
I'm not arguing that using AI makes me a software developer. I'm saying that as a software developer, I seek to use the best tools for the job, just like any other job.
Anti AI arguments are always good for a laugh. I enjoy using the best tools for my job. Sometimes the best tool for software development is AI. Sometimes AI does a bad job and other tools work best. What does that make me? A software developer, I suppose.
Useless shit.