AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

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A research study on using AI coding assistants has shown that while developers believed they got a 20% productivity gain from using the tools, measurement showed a 19% decrease in productivity.

The issue seems to be that devs only count coding time saved but not the time spent prompting & reviewing

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Great deck and in the context of where we are right now, rather than already in an AI utopia (though its coming)! Nice to see.

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And then AI mode becoming the default tab will complete the transformation

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👀 source: journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/i...

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h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

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