Snort_Owl [they/them]

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  • It was the goat back when i was churning out winforms slop with DataTable and DataView it was so easy to slap together some crappy desktop app to sell and DataTable let me query data in memory instead of manipulating via code which was fun.

    And i have never used it since. Its ok for when you need to do something specifically Microsoft but I can’t think of any general thing its good at. It does generally look and feel nicer than java though but kotlin beats both.

    Entity framework and linq was a decent orm for sql server but it only had the full feature set for sql server.






  • If the bombs are made in America to blow me up thats bad we can’t be exploded by the capitalist machinery of America. But if the bombs are made in China its good and I will praise president Xi for giving me the means to be exploded.

    At its core its mass surveillance tech and exists to oppress workers. It could be useful if we lived under communism but WE DONT LIVE UNDER COMMUNISM.

    If its providing a benefit to the working class right now please point to where cos i cant see it. Theoretical doesnt count cos it doesnt exist. And if it is, is the benefit enough to offset the damage it is doing?

    The only bit I like is nobody is saying learn to code anymore and thats about it. Anyway I block anyone here who vehemently defends AI and ironically it always seems to be people I didn’t like already

    The damage it has caused

    • deepfakes of women they did not consent to
    • mass job losses based on the hopes of free labour
    • worlds most hallucinated surveillance state
    • right wing propaganda that an even wider net can fall for
    • demolishing open source
    • increased exploitation at workplaces where ai is used as a cudgel to keep people overworked
    • datacenters for hyperscalers that are ruining entire communities
    • entire consumer tech market is about to collapse for more job losses
    • its gonna crash the economy so hard its gonna make 2008 look like a day at the beach
    • its uses almost always fall into the nefarious with increases in malware, cyber attacks, useless saas products, broken code. Yeah we were already on that trajectory sure but it really did hit the accelerate button

    Things its good for

    • cool toy for insufferable people that make it their entire personality because theyre crap at everything they do and think invoking CHINA absolves them and can absolutely guarantee nothing they”make” is good or useful to anyone
    • you can do personal projects slightly quicker i guess while learning nothing of value defeating the entire point of a personal project or the joy of making anything yourself










    1. Reviewing slop code is boring as fuck and strips any joy out of the work
    2. Nobody reviews slop code
    3. Slop code is produced by the most insufferable talentless hacks ever who cant take a crumb of feedback

    All its going to do is burn out the maintainers and theyre gonna quit. Same as is happening in any corporate job where knowledgeable seniors are being pushes out by naive juniors and all ai code is implicitly trusted. All work is produced by prompt monkeys who pray it doesnt break and like all programming decisions the consequences won’t be seen until a few years down the line