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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:21:47 +0000

Moreso what I'm trying to say is that AGI is a return to the eighteenth/ninetheenth century fantasy of slavery as a business model.

AGI means cruelty-free robot slaves.

New comment by dan_gee in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:39:55 +0000

Could you leave a comment expressing your perspective?

New comment by dan_gee in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:39:09 +0000

> As I mentioned in this thread the other day, it's not worth debating AI skeptics anymore in 2026

This is pretty rude!

New comment by dan_gee in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:35:01 +0000

IMO AGI is a bold-faced lie, backed by the age-old American fantasy of free labor. The whole concept seems quite ugly to me.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:33:50 +0000

If you don't mind sharing, what types of jobs are you working on now?

I haven't personally seen a speed boost from LLMs, but my experience with them suggests that they could be effective in some domains and inadequate in others. E.G., I have observed that LLM tools are inadequate for generating C++ code.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:26:16 +0000

Thank you for your comment.

The narrative that LLMs are essential to the future of the trade often feels like an assault on my professional expertise.

Whatever your experience is, mine is that LLMs don't work well for software development. I wish people who use AI would be more willing take that perspective seriously.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:15:59 +0000

> Think of all the shops that will soon be composed of people that simply can't even get out of bed, if their LLM is not available.

I'm biased because I don't use AI, but I don't understand why you wouldn't fire these LLM-addicted people and replace them with people who can code or write an email without the use of an AI assistant.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:58:38 +0000

Just my personal experience. I'm not really interested in giving up more personal details in this forum, apologies for that.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:57:53 +0000

As a C++ developer, AI does not work well for software development in my experience. Maybe LLM developer tools work better if you write React or HTML/CSS, but they have been inadequate for my use case since their arrival.

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:53:47 +0000

Can you elaborate on what happened that made you look dumb?

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dan_gee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:52:29 +0000

A resolute anti-AI perspective is a breath of fresh air compared to the middle-of-the-road "AI made me 10x more productive BUT"-style comments.

My professional opinion is that LLM technology doesn't work very well for software development and I'm not interested in hemming and hawing over its supposed benefits any longer.