I tell you 3 times I was genuinely excited with AI. 1 - original Google transformers release (hope for future) 2- opus 4.6 comes out (first time an llm can do real programming for me and the code is good) 3 - Qwen3.8-Flash-Next comes out - first time a model i can run myself at good speed can do real programming and is almost as good as opus.
replyThose are genuine breakthroughs.
Again that suggests that the end goal is to use AI. As long as using AI is your goal, using AI is also the definition of succeeding at your goal.
replyAny society-wide productivity gain was lost when software engineers ceased collaborating with each other in good faith. In OSS, they stopped collaborating. At companies, they stopped collaborating. One by one, in silence, alone, we have been bereft of our vision, our team spirit, our passion, our uniqueness. We no longer have the will to serve others, or even to serve each other. We stopped building our future. We will accept whatever society AI makes for use like fucking cattle or lemmings or like dogs.
AI hasn't elevated humanity, it has taken a massive dump on it.
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