I've seen a particular drop in quality of the code produced by my coworkers leaning on LLMs.

Code running is absolutely not the benchmark for code quality. Being able to read and understand the code so that you can fix problems when they arise is.

Any jackass can trial and error into running code.

This is a systemic problem I will be writing more about elsewhere, but there's a tendency to see medicine and medical research as a solution to defective people, rather than as the prerequisite for all other basic freedoms. The catch is that we then question whether defectives deserve the fix.

Recent updates have turned on features that I had already, explicitly turned off.

That just undermines principles 4,5, and 8 of Mozilla’s principles, and you should review your internal procedures to prevent that from happening again.

www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...

Then let people choose to opt-in, rather than forcing them to learn how to opt out. Especially when the technology being foisted is as useless and deceptive as A.I.

I love how this is now tagged as rude… as if violating user consent isn’t that at the very least

but no, saying no to this crap is rude. figures

I did skip it entirely. It changed the settings against my will. You keep cramming it in our faces. We hate it. Knock it off! AI sucks and is hugely wasteful of both time and resources. It‘s an insult to your users

What PISSES ME OFF relentlessly about all this is the gaslighting:

tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier"

Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it

How. I keep having to turn this shit off almost every time i open a new tab, bc the settings do NOT stick, and frankly I’m sick of it

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

And I wish there was more skepticism exhibited towards giant corporations who exist to make profit for shareholders. I don't care if people like pods, but I *do* care if options which let consumers figure out ideal dosing for themselves are artificially worsened as it sure seems like they are.