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Cake day: May 31st, 2024

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  • I have stopped using it, because the skill atrophy kicked in and I don’t want to turn into someone chatting with a bot every day.

    To quote myself:

    I work as a software developer and over the last months, I slipped into a habit of letting ChatGPT write more and more code for me. It’s just so easy to do! Write a function here, do some documentation there, do all of the boilerplate for me, set up some pre-commit hooks, …

    Two weeks ago I deleted my OpenAI account and forced myself to write all code without LLMs, just as I did before. Because there is one very real problem of excessive AI useage in software development: Skill atrophy.

    I was actively losing knowledge. Sometimes I had to look up the easiest things (like builtin Javascript functions) I was definitely able to work with off the top of my head just a year ago. I turned away from being an actual developer to someone chatting with a machine. I slowly lost the fun in coding, because I outsourced the problem solving aspects that gave me a dopamine boost to the AI. I basically became a glorified copypaster.




  • The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude

    While it took me a few months to really notice it, that still shocked me. Using AI extensively makes you depend on it - and that’s exactly what the big players want. A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

    Since I am not forced to use it, I deleted my OpenAI account and started to code without LLM assistance again. It’s much more fun to solve problems by myself (and get a dopamine kick out of that) anyway - and when the bubble inevitably pops, I can still go on as I did before.













  • In Germany, after national socialism, we have very strict rules on how you are allowed to talk about it, because there were unfortunately a lot of people still denying it or not believing it.

    True. But a lot of people on the whole Fediverse seem to be very narrow-minded black-and-white thinkers. In their logic, abiding to the law in Germany is equivalent to following direct orders from the Gestapo. Maybe you just don’t want to get arrested and put in jail for running a niche community on the internet, but that’s not even an argument to them.

    Some people in that db0 thread even suggested feddit.org should just shut down completely, which is ridiculous. Every country must’ve laws you don’t agree with, but you don’t run and hide because of that.

    This “we vs. them” attitude is exactly what’s been criticized about MAGA all of the time, but doing it in this case is perfectly legitimate, somehow. I don’t know what kind of brain gymnastics you’ll have to do to come to a conclusion like this.

    It’s just exhausting trying to talk to these people. I say let them shut down their community and hang out in their radicalized bubble. Good riddance.


  • Die extremen Rechten verwenden bereits jetzt ihre Klarnamen im Internet, man muss sich nur 1x auf Facebook oder Instagram einloggen und sieht das sofort.

    Wie wäre es mal damit, das Verbotsverfahren der AfD endlich anzuleiern und ein öffentliches Zeichen dafür zu setzen, dass diese Menschen und ihre hasserfüllte, niederträchtige Ideologie in unserer Gesellschaft nicht willkommen sind?

    Merz so: Best we can do is weiter fleißig Symbolpolitik machen, das wird das Problem von Hass im Netz bestimmt lösen.

    Außerdem wünscht er sich mehr »Fröhlichkeit an der Arbeit«.

    Och Mensch, hör’ auf! Da werd’ ich aber langsam bisschen wild hier, langsam. Jetzt reicht’s mir langsam!