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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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It's not the existential threat that caused the selloff. It was the fact that the shit barely works half the time and isn't remotely as useful as they'd claimed it would be. Over hyped auto correct is being pushed as a thinking entity that can make decisions. It's not
Maybe, i'm in the minority, but its made a huge improvement to my productivity. I'm self-employed & a big part of my work is making explainer videos & youtube content for clients. Generative AI has boosted that enormously, as has ChatGPT for simplifying software workflows/answering questions.
So you're a slop-monger. I think op meant useful as in useful for creating anything of value.
Most of the speed improvements are when I'm using it to do things I previously did much more slowly with software, in particular After Effects.
I'm not surprised at the backlash against generative AI & the widespread use of the term 'slop'.
But human creatives have always used tools. Once upon a time, practical effects people, & paper and pen animators would have seen After Effects computer generated animation & VFX as slop, too.
Yes you are in the minority as AI is shit at most tasks. It's not reliable, and often completely wrong in what it barfs out
It’s useful for time saving when I don’t feel like remembering a proprietary syntax I only use once in a blue moon, or if my code is giving me an error message it can sometimes point out what’s wrong quicker than reading through the code manually, but I wouldn’t trust it to write my code without reviewing every detail of its output. The whole vibe coding movement is crazy to me
This, sooo much. It's been great for writing some python scripts quickly. But damn do you have to read and test that code, but I already did that with my own code so....