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@codinghorror Maybe "far less uninviting" would be more accurate, lol.

@Elwell @mhoye Omg, this just unlocked a lost memory. I don't know what happened to it, because I forgot it even existed, but in grade 7 or 8 I had a universal remote wrist watch (pretty sure I got it from thinkgeek.com (rip)), the primary function of which became confusing and annoying teachers 😅

@fcalva@cyberplace.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop The frightening thing is that they are generating functional software at this point. Idk how much handholding they need in the present day (because I actually enjoy what I do and I have zero interest in crowdfunding the Torment Nexus) but it started polluting the tech-adjacent maker side of YouTube almost immediately so I've watched multiple people who clearly aren't experienced programmers, but are persistent enough to go back and forth with an earlier, jankier version of ChatGPT to eventually end up with a functional program, and I'm lead to believe that some of the more code-focused models/platofrms have gotten a lot less hand-holdy. I'm just waiting to see how much more data breach coverage costs next time I renew my business insurance, lmao.

@fcalva@cyberplace.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop Oh totally; 100% on the same page with you. My point when I said "frightening" wasn't so much concern about AI one day replacing me entirely or whatever. It's frightening in that it's getting good enough that [num w/ ≥2 zeros]s of underqualified "programmers" are "producing" (it's extremely difficult to discuss this subject without copious scare quotes, lol) vast amounts of internet-facing code that they couldn't possibly hope to debug or assess for security holes, and then [in the case of public-facing web apps] potentially exposing any number of future users to that risk. Is it really so different than anything we've all been exposed to in the big tech social media era? Probably not, though I do expect to see a lot of very embarassing data breaches in the future from services that let users setup custom AI characters for example, or the countless AI image generation services. Not quite AshleyMadison.com, but y'know... potentially not far off, either.

@thevhswizard@retro.pizza It really is a beautiful thing.