I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of pro-AI posts on this platform.
Various posts with titles similar to “When will people stop being afraid of AI” or “Can we please acknowledge AI was very needed for X”
Can’t tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.
If anything it seems to be the reverse. The two most anti-slop people I know in real life are developers that are now unemployed due to slop. Anecdotes, though.
Which raises 2 questions: Were they anti-slop because they saw the threat to their jobs? Or did they lose their jobs because they wouldn’t match the output of AI users?
Definitely the former. I’m not a professional developer so this may be inaccurate, but I don’t think there are non-AI users in professional development spaces anymore. Claude seems pretty much ubiquitous at this point; I doubt there have been meaningful numbers of non-AI-using developers for a while.
Which makes the risk of deskilling so much more scary to me, personally. At least now we still have developers that can understand, untangle, and troubleshoot AI code output. Will the next generation of AI-first developers have those same skills?