Sounds like a regular software development job where instead of being a Luddite, people use the latest technology for the job.
Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They use generative AI for assets in their website and require potential devs to use AI in their workflow. Fuck em.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Luddites didn’t fear technology, they feared for the commoditisation of manual labour and they were dead on right as pauperism followed.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Waiting for this comment lmao
stephen01king@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Which means calling some anti-AI people Luddites make perfect sense, no? Many of them have just as valid of a worry and fear as the Luddites did.
Of course, once the anti-AI sentiment goes mainstream, the amount of idiots who are irrationally anti-AI also increases, and these ones are not worth listening to, unlike the Luddites-like ones.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What’s the opposite of a Luddite? Hey, if you enjoy bending over and letting techbros do with you what they will, don’t expect me to provide any lube. Now run along and ask ChatGPT how you should feel about this response.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Anti AI arguments are always good for a laugh. I enjoy using the best tools for my job. Sometimes the best tool for software development is AI. Sometimes AI does a bad job and other tools work best. What does that make me? A software developer, I suppose.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
AI Bros are always good for a laugh. They can’t point to any industry successes, pretend massive industry failures like Microsoft don’t count, and generally trust their own feelings over facts.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah and typing “make a picture of a hot dog” into a text field makes one an artist…
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The good thing is they don’t have DRM so boycott is extremely easy and at the same time very hard
Rokin@leminal.space 1 day ago
require potential devs to use AI in their workflow
From where did you get that?
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
From the job posting.
“Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption”
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I would love to. They deserve a little lovin’ for all the work they put in preserving games. 10/10, would buy games from them over Steam any and every day.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you want to ditch every software company/vendor that uses LLM code tools, you may want to never touch software ever again.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
Doomposting about AI inevitability is only beneficial to AI companies… If your claim is even true. And if it is, we should shame everybody else.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
Citation needed.
You’re on a post about Linux, an OS has grown in popularity thanks to Microsoft ruining Windows with the “true aids” you’re promoting here.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 day ago
None of what you brought up as a positive are things an LLM does. Most of those things existed before the modern transformer-based LLMs were even a thing.
LLM-s are glorified text prediction engines and nothing about their nature makes them excel at formal languages. It doesn’t know any rules. It doesn’t have any internal logic. For example if the training data consistently exhibits the same flawed piece of code then an LLM will spit out the same flawed piece of code, because that’s the most likely continuation of its current “train of thought”. You would have to fine-tune the model around all those flaws and then hope some combination of a prompt won’t lead the model back into that flawed data.
I’ve used LLMs to generate SQL, which according to you is something they should excel at, and I’ve had to fix literal syntax errors that would prevent the statement from executing. A regular SQL linter would instantly pick up that the SQL is wrong but an LLM can’t pick up those errors because an LLM does not understand the syntax.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 1 day ago
We had all of those things before AI and they worked just fine and didn't require 50 Exowatts of electricity to run.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
None of that is “AI” dumbass. Stop watering down the terminology.
LLMs run from cloud data canters are the thing that everyone is against, and that is what the term “AI” means. No one thinks IntelliSense is AI; no one thinks adding jslint to your CI pipeline is AI.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If your morals and ethics can be changed by inevitability then what’s that say about you?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would you have taken a moral stance against automated telephone switchboards or online shopping?
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah if their impact was as negative.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you think every LLM tool is a product of an over valued tech bro company then what’s that say about you?
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The referenced job is clearly talking about the current over valued tech bro kind, you buffoon.