Us old people as well.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
1040 points (98.8% liked)
Technology
87279 readers
3877 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Nah, why would anyone love AI when we can just--
Let's all love Lain!
your pet rock has advice for you
My previous work enforced the use of AI for everything besides wipping your own butt. I was a senior dev and adamantly refused to use it for ethical reasons.
Not once have I touched it, not once I felt I needed it. I said as much whenever I had meetings with eng. managers and I could provably argue that I was doing very fine without it, I was in fact as much or more productive than my AI addled colleagues and furthermore I found many severe bugs in their PRs. I saw the code quality and stability of my project take a deep plunge because of Claude. They said it was company policy to use.. but because it was not on my contract and I was not falling behind on any of my responsibilities I answered I would rather be fired than to use AI. I never was. I kept at this for a year, and finally changed to somewhere where my judgement on when and where to use these things is more important than KPIs.
It's not that I didn't see a use case for AI - I saw very minor use cases for dashboards and quick insight into logs - but as much as I can I don't allow managers and KPIs to have this much control over how I work and which tools I use.
there you go! keep using that noggin!
I could imagine they increasingly don't trust politicians either.
It's almost as if there is a pattern there isn't it?
Maybe we are being filled with more bullshit all around than we have ever been!
Maybe that's precisely the goal.. increase distrust in Politicians so that people start voting for the extreme right who then get rid of the last resemblance of democracy.
load more comments
(2 replies)
The same poll showed:
According to the CNBC Generation Lab poll, which received responses from 1,088 people earlier this month, 46% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 now hold either a “favorable” or a “very favorable” view of democratic socialism. An additional 23% held “somewhat unfavorable” or “very unfavorable” opinions, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of 2.97 percentage points.
and
Almost half of respondents, 45%, said they believe AI will have a negative impact on their careers, while 10% believe it will help them with their careers. An additional 40% said they believe “the federal government” must set rules for AI, while 36% said they believe “an independent expert body” should set the rules of the game. Just 8% said they think AI “shouldn’t be regulated.” A majority, 60%, believe data center construction “must be slowed,” while 15% favor “speeding it up.”
While they may or may not distrust current politicians, it does not appear that they're significantly distrustful of politicians in general.
load more comments
(2 replies)
If AI gave correct answers 95% of the time instead of <50%, didn't cause massive inflation in computer parts and doesn't completely fuck the environment I'd be somewhat in favor of it.
It would still be dogshit for how slop has infused the human creative domain, and for how it contributes to brain rot. In fact, being more correct would probably make both of those things worse.
load more comments
(3 replies)