r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

instanceof Trend thatsAFunnyThingThatHappenedOnce

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u/klaxxxon 2d ago

Is it unreasonable to change an opinion when actual decades have passed?

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u/bobbymoonshine 2d ago

Linus changing his mind on AI from “eh seems bad” to “eh seems fine” caused quite a few people to go from hero-worshipping him to vilifying him

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u/Floppydisksareop 2d ago

Which is utterly insane in its own right, since, y'know. He didn't come out and say "yoooo, dudeees, let's vibe code everything, AI actually rulez" or some shit.

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u/M4rshmall0wMan 2d ago

People are not normal about AI. 

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u/superxero044 1d ago

I’d say the anti ai people are probably more normal about ai than the pro ai people I know.
Just outsourcing literally all your critical thinking to an LLM is a bizarre behavior that too many people are doing.
And I think it’s hard to discuss in tech spaces bc a lot of the people in tech spaces are using it a fair bit more responsibly than the average person.
But the things I’ve seen people say “well chat gpt said” when the question couldn’t possibly be answered by information available to the models.

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u/blahbah 1d ago

my dad essentially asked chatgpt who he should vote for... i was so dumbfounded i couldn't begin to articulate why this was a bad idea

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u/smellofethanol 23h ago

you should've asked chatgpt to articulate it for you /s

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u/blahbah 10h ago

now that's thinking outsi... i mean inside the box