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I was using Googles Flash 3 Ai on a projekt and it started inserting its English response to me in the middle of the actual code.

It didnt compile and I told it that the problem is the English you put in the middle of the code.

It said everything seems fine and wondered if I maybe need some help writing tests.

I no longer use Flash. :)

But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background...

I like reading those actually. Its always interesting to see people leave and why they do it. And many of the reasons can be summed up with how its not worth it anymore.

Since i left tech myself after 25 years also. :)

Techno fascism is a thing. But thats not why I left. I just didnt like AI being forced into the culture. Changed the entire profession from creating solutions to asking for solutions.

Copilot made improvements to the infrastructure.

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah it is but I guess there is nothing anyone can do about it now. People wont admit it but they know thats how most or all programmers will work in the future.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai... Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup.... I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that.... I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

Its called the matrix, and people will work super hard if you give them a nice title for that external validation that is so juicy. One day they wake up 60 years old, with a house full of old stuff they rarely used, since they were so busy all the time with working.

Probably missed seeing their kids grow up, and maybe also grew disconnected with the partner they liked as a young person.

So yeah. Gather money and get the hell out of that.

I stopped enjoying writing code completely, but its been interesting to watch everyone else who started to enjoy it MORE with Ai.

It seems to be a certain group of programmers who always were more motivated by getting the result out the door than the experience of putting code together in a certain way.

I suspect the era of high salaries as a programmer is over, since companies now feel they can replace people even easier.

Nostalgia for final destination movies. But I think I only liked them when growing up with them. I tried rewatching and they are pretty bad actually.. Hehe.

You were the only person here who double checked if this is even real, or AI slop.

I think we are going to see so much popular content not even be real. And people will defend it, thinking you are weird for wanting only real stuff, using terms as "who cares". Its funny. :)

How many users here are bots, to begin with...

It may be time to walk outside. Cant fake real people. Yet.