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by Havoc15 hours ago |
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upvoteby elzbardico28 minutes ago|
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Programming is probably the most democratized profession ever.

The problem was never access barriers, but the fact that people are too lazy to study even a 200-300 pages on something as simple as ruby on rails.

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upvoteby ares62314 hours ago|
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They can rent their own tools, more like.
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upvoteby Kinrany10 hours ago|
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No, they can make their own tools. They rent someone else's tools in the process of making their own tools.
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upvoteby tkiolp41 hours ago|
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Not entirely true. For instance if I use LLMs to build an ios app I still need to pay apple $100 to use my own app for an undetermined amount of time.

If I build a web app i still need to pay for a domain, for a server for egress.

We are just renting. Wouldn’t be surprised if in the future this gets even more depressing

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upvoteby matheusmoreira2 hours ago|
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One day people will not even be able to own computers anymore. They will be owned, controlled and rented out by corporate elites for limited purposes only. The personal computer will probably either cease to exist due to economic factors. It will probably be made illegal for citizens to own free computers. We'll probably need licenses to operate one.

The mere concept of people "making their own tools" is just comical in this bleak timeline.

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upvoteby ares6234 hours ago|
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They can continue renting to maintain the tools they make.
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upvoteby ldng12 hours ago|
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Terrible argument. They always could learn and DIY.
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upvoteby edgyquant11 hours ago|
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You have to have a knack for it, most people are not programmer types
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upvoteby simonw10 hours ago|
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I don't think it's about being a "type" so much as choosing what to specialize in.

I could learn plumbing skills and do the plumbing around my house. I've chosen not to.

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upvoteby kqr12 hours ago|
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... if they are privileged enough to be able to take time away from family and jobs.

The current crop of LLMs are subsidised enough to make this learning less expensive for those with little of both time and money. That's what's meant by democratised.

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upvoteby cyanydeez14 hours ago|
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The people taking the lead in most of Ai in America are bootlickers of fascism. So not much difference than China on a long enough time line.
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upvoteby Havoc13 hours ago|
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The US losing the plot doesn’t change the fact that the tech is fundamentally democraticism on a personal level.

If all the frontier models disappear into autocratic dark holes then yeah we have a problem but the fundamental freedom gain an “individuals can make tools without knowing coding” isn’t going anywhere

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