I started my IT career in 2011, I have enjoyed it, I have got to do a lot of interesting stuff and meet interesting people, I will treasure those memories forever.
But, starting with crypto turing general computing from being:
"Wow, this machine can run so many apps at the same time!" or "Holy shit, those graphics look epic!" or "Amazing, this computer has really sped up that annoying task!"
To being:
Yo! Look at how many numbers I can generate!
That brought down my enthusiasm severely, but hey, figuring out solutions to problems was still fun.
Then came AI/LLMs.
And with it, a mountain of slop.
Finding help about an issue has gone from googling and reading help articles written by something with an actual brain to mostly being rephrased manuals that only provide working answers to semi standard answers.
Add to that a general push to us AI in anything and everything, no matter how little relevance it holds for the task at hand.
I also remember how AI was sold to the us at first, we were promised to do away with boring paperwork, so we could get on with our actual job.
What did we get? An AI that takes the fun and creative parts, leaving the paperwork for the workers.
We got an AI that we need to expect to be stealing our work and data at every point, giving us shit work back, while being told that we should applaude it and be grateful for it.
And the worst thing, the worst thing is that people seem happy with it. I keep getting requests to buy another Copilot license or asking for another AI service to be added to our tenant, I am sick of it!
We got an AI that somehow has slithered onto the golden throne and can't be questioned.
I am not able to leave the tech market at this time, but I will focus on more tangible hobbies going forward.
This year, I have given myself a project, I will try to build a model railway in a suitcase. That will be a Z-scale tiny world in a suitcase.
I have never done anything remotely like it, but I feel like I need something physical to take my mind off tech.
Sorry for the rant, but I just came off of a high from realizing and putting words to my feelings.
Eh, some people generate slop using AI, while I fixed a visual glitch unique to Linux in a Unity game yesterday. No, I didn't have the source. Just Lorn's Lure, straight from Steam.
GPT-5.3-Codex didn't even decompile the code or anything. It instead analysed the IL code, and wrote a C# program to patch the game's viewrange, because it figured that was the issue (which it was).
I had some z-fighting issues, which don't exist on Windows, because Linux uses OpenGL instead of DirectX I guess? Anyway, having a farClip of 70_000 (yes, 70k) is a bit much for OpenGL ๐)
I do understand that the mountain of slop being generated isn't exactly fun, nor is it fun that AI is being jammed into literally everything (even though some locations can still be useful), I think humanity at large needs some time adapting to start ignoring slop; we'll eventually adapt to it, as we did to everything before. Until then, try to find new way to use them, perhaps?
omfg shut up
I like to think your edit was changing it from "omg shut up."
Then you'll be pleased to know it was.
Fuck yeah, friend!
<3
Your use case is not the one that is making our lives more difficult. Using an LLM to do something for yourself, without passing it on to someone else as some sort of value add or using it as a way to get around having to think for yourself, is not the use case that we are against. Forcing a DEVELOPER to use it in their job for everything possible means that the developer does not learn, does not gain skills, and does not do the thing that they assumedly started learning how to code for. The only thing they learn is how to write a prompt (which isn't fun) and how to clean up after the AI (which is even less fun). Coding is fun! It's like a giant ever-changing puzzle! I don't want to hand all the fun parts of my job over to a plagiarism machine that is making life materially worse for a majority of the world!