The recent sprawl of viruses, worms, and malware should give everyone pause when installing fresh software.

This is an app. Not a protocol, not a platform, an app.

It's just... a way to remember stuff? You're handing all this data to a company, relying on "trust me bro, we'll be responsible" as a promise to be ethical?

This is beyond perplexing.

My company is still on GitHub... for now. But incidents like this are becoming more common and I'm becoming less tolerant of it. I suspect many feel the same, but it takes time to persuade the masses.

Where did anyone advocate for "large scale code generation"? LLMs are a fantastic way to go from, "We thought this this feature" to "It's shipped and in people's hands". That could've been 100 lines or 1,000 lines but that's not the point.

Solve the leadership problem and the AI thing becomes an advantage instead of a problem.

Assuming of course everything else stays the same (quality, etc.)

So AI isn't really doing anything but giving sharper tools to both groups.

So, as it was before, we simply need to set expectations and remove those who cannot adapt and meet expectations... You know, the way it's always been.

So why is AI the problem here?

While it is tempting view all of human progress as some heroic feat of raging against the machine, it seems much more likely to me that progress came from accepting reality, and then working within the bounds of physics.

The latter half of your comment is rather smug, but I wouldn't look down on people who have peacefully accepted reality. Time is fleeting and we are but flowers in a field—briefly brightly bloomed and then withered.

I hold our politicians in no high regard, but I do hold myself to some standard in that I won't accuse someone of corrupt conduct unless I actually have evidence.

The point being, it's laughable to slander someone else's morality while you lie to posture your own.

Or is this one of those, "I don't like that person, so I'll just make stuff up" things?

It is also a place where the next generation can learn the wonder and beauty of nature.

They also tend to work closely with conservation efforts worldwide.

So... yeahhh, no. Not at all the same.

I'm not joking. This is the reason I heard for them making it smaller.

That seems like quite the accusation and I haven't heard anything about that.

I find that a lot of "pro-AI" folks are very much doing software for the ends (myself included) and in the past, we were happy with the "means" primarily because there was no other way. The "anti-AI" folks are, as mentioned, mostly in the camp of caring about the means equally with the ends.

Lots of nuance here, but those buckets seem to generalize pretty well (so far) in my experience.