Tried to listen to this video but the narrators voice is almost unbearable to listen to for more than 2 minutes. And additionally I can’t deal with how unstructured the video is. Am I becoming old?

Maybe they’re right… I also had that thought in the last weeks I have to admit.

But… you also seem to be using technology to take part in this discussion. So are you just as inconsequential as everyone here who is so critical of the technology itself while using a lot of other technologies?

If the argument is that AI code is devaluing labour, then you’d need to be critical of any automation. The steam machine devalued the labour of artisans, robots devalued the labour of assembly line workers. You can hold this belief but you’d basically have to become an Amish OR you say: Yeah this devalues labour, so we should fight for the workers getting their share in increased productivity at least.

I do think you are overreacting. I don’t see why AI-generated code in FOSS projects is necessarily bad. I think the policy in the Linux kernel development makes a lot of sense: Human maintainers own their commits and are responsible for any bugs. It’s not like humans did generate bug-free code before the rise of AI tools.

I think a lot of the AI hype and it’s implications can be criticised: environmental impacts, job losses, tech feudalism, etc. Yeah I totally get that and it’s important to voice this critique. But the technology in itself is not evil, nor good. It’s just technology.

You also wouldn’t criticise the invention or usage of lenses, just because you can use them to build rifles, right? It makes more sense to address those uses of the technology that cause harm, and not those that are beneficial for humans, like having glasses or satellite optics.

I think you’re correct: Most of US protestants are nutjob baptists in fringe sects. It seems there was a reason for the religious persecution of the puritans…

Why was? The regime is not gone.