The one thing I can't stand about the AI zealots is their anti‑intellectualism. Even before coding agents became a thing, there were so many comments here along the lines of, "doing things properly has a learning cost! I don't have time for that nonsense because, unlike you, I'm busy actually making stuff." Now, too many people openly mock the practice of reading, writing, or understanding code altogether.

It's sad to see what hacker culture has been reduced to: outright contempt for science and engineering.

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akkad33 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One thinking is most people writing software who are not software engineers prefer using AI because they don't think software is valuable in itself, it's only a way to solve a problem. So there are two camps, the other being people who like to solve "software problems". But this latter has been solved by AI

	▲	soraminazuki 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's exactly thing I'm trying to call out. AI coding has attracted a flood of people whose only goal is to make a quick buck out of shoddy work. They regard science and engineering as beneath them, and they're not shy about saying it, here and elsewhere. Any serious professional in this field knows that software development is far from a solved problem. It wasn't before LLMs, and it isn't now. Responsible development takes discipline and respect for the hard-won lessons of past and present efforts. But no, according to many here, being responsible makes you a "luddite." "Humans make mistakes too," that's what they'll say as they'll inevitably screw over people's lives with their reckless disregard for others. "It's not my issue to solve." Seriously, haven't techbros already caused enough damage throughout society with "move fast and break things"? A lot of people are losing patience for this nonsense.

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risyachka 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is because AI is most appealing to average and below average developers and users because it makes them feel like they can finally do something.