Yes, but the average joe conflates AI with LLMs. We should just let it go and use “machine learning” or maybe invent some new terminology, the term “AI” is hopelessly lost to the techbros marketing speech.

nothing wrong with them if they’re optional

Mostly greed. All other answers flow from that.

Not a privacy invasion if it’s a laptop given by the company.

This might not be an option open for everyone but you could be not working for a shitty company in the first place

yeah, and this is why I edited my original post after reading the article.

vibe code go brrrrrrr

EDIT: wow it’s far worse, it was a single contractor that decided that his convenience was above any and all security recommendations ever written. Pure. Genius!

It’s not that simple, there’s also esprit de corps and discipline and networking.

fuck that, not having to commute for over 2h every day beats anything you could list as being good in pro-return-to-office

Most countries in Europe already are USA’s vassals since WW2

Shitty draconinan and unforceable EULA, that’s a hard pass for me. Any company that does shit like that don’t deserve to see my money.

What are you going to switch to now?

You’re right, we should burn all computers and return to use dead tree matter to write things down, and abaci for math operations.

I haven’t yet seen any aspect of it that touches people’s lives.

there’s the thousands of people who lost their jobs… the insane electricity and water usage costs too

AI hardware are 1 ton server racks that consume an obscene amount of electricity, you probably wouldn’t want any of that in your home

The “correct” way to use AI for coding (and anything really) is to ask for explanations / tutorials when you can’t find one online, then learn from that.

except the “explanation” frequently will be 100% “hallucinated” bullshit