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The urge to be alienated from your own craft (he had a tehcnical background at some point) and then justify it because you "dont have time" to code anymore (gee whizz maybe pick a different job dipass) is infuriating.

He's just typing in a request and the code changes before his eyes -- he isnt doing any fucking coding!!! He's using a chatbox to request an entity changes the code!!! we already do that dorkshit!!! and we hallucinate bullshit too!!!

Look I know that capitalists will always align to automation over workers, but this isn't that. This is a man who is genuinely convinced he is an active participant in the programming process despite occupying a role no different to the one he does already, only with faster results in the specific demos he creates.

Capitalism has turned its central contradiction -- alienation, into a fucking product that people want.

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[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

if i use arcane knowledge of some data structures to get an LLM to make some scripts to work with those data structures in a programming language i don't know any syntax for to interface with tools i barely know how to use, and running those scripts produces a tangible result that's valuable to some people...

idk i simultaneously feel like i did something and didn't do anything because 15 years ago i probably had the mental faculties to learn a new language and some open-source software with a horrible ui but depression has rotted my brain and i can't do that anymore. I'm also probably the only english speaker who knows anything about about those data structures who isn't under some NDA so the downsteam results couldn't happen without me. But i didn't write any of the code, just roughly explained the logic to a scrabble bag.

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