And finally, I worry that whatever love anyone has for coding is going to die out once people start giving up the fight against the bullshit machine.

Coding used to be a wonderful, creative and worthwhile hobby and occupation. Now the LLM bros are sucking out the joy of the craft to make money.

You don't become a chef by using a microwave to heat up premade meals that someone else made any more than you become a developer by using LLMs to write code.

I worry that we're raising a generation of people who only know how to consume technology, and have no relationship with the making of it.

I worry about what will happen when they have done this for a couple of years, and then they need to go out and find a job. I worry that they will not be hirable. I worry that whatever love for the craft I try to imprint on them will ultimately be lost to the tech bros' grip on the industry.

...that they don't need to learn any skills to do this job. And that they don't really need to concern themselves with the details around the implementation. Just trust the hallucinating bullshit machine and let it write the code for you. It won't take long and it'll probably look great!

I keep telling my students that being an LLM power user isn't going to get them hired. Their knowledge is. As such, I try to steer them towards educational activities and sources of information that will help build this knowledge. It sucks that the tech business is constantly telling them...

Where I work, we have a lot of different programmes, not only in development but also in marketing and sales to name a few. It's remarkable how hard LLMs is being pushed on these students, not only by guest lecturers but by teachers who have been bitten by the bug.

Working as a teacher has me feeling all kinds of things about LLMs.

There is such a shift in the mindset of students and educators now where the final product is somehow more important than the knowledge gained, probably because that is what all the tech companies are pushing on us.

Actually, I work as a front-end development teacher in higher education (college/university level) right now.

I worked as a dev up until March this year, though, and I was working in a team at that time. We had the autonomy to choose our tools and using LLMs wasn't considered at any point for us.

I already summed up my thoughts on the matter as a reply to a different post: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The spacemouse is also the most delightful creature in the universe so the spacemouse has that going for them at least

Donkey Kong '94 for the Gameboy. Yes, it's a Mario game, despite it being called Donkey Kong, and it's easily the best Gameboy platformer ever made.

Absolutely not.

I've spent the last 20+ years writing HTML and CSS because I love my craft. It makes me happy when everything works the way I want it to. Creating things makes me happy. It's the best part of my professional life. Why on earth would I want to automate the thing that makes me happy?

Neurodivergent conditions are only disabilities because we live in a world not designed for us. Easy to imagine a flipped narrative in a world run by neurodivergents,eg “Patient insists others decode hidden meanings behind their words and compulsively makes eye contact for excessive amounts of time“

I'm interested if you still have spots open!

That's the most beautifully poetic thing anyone has ever said about AI slop

Den ser jeg helt klart, og jeg er lik av prinsipp, men om 69 sure kroner er det det koster å bli kvitt Meta så er det velanvendte penger lell. Får ikke en gang en dubaisjokolade til prisen, liksom, og lykken ved den er borte etter to minutter. Denne lykken varer mye, mye lengre.

Ja. Hver eneste krone.