Sure! Slightly edited the tone, but I’m noticing that often people have idealistic attitudes about FOSS until they get burnt by bad faith actors or even just indifferent corps that have to keep the lights on. Quite unfortunate, definitely not their fault. Pity is correct.
It’s definitely pity. It’s a hard pill to swallow when you were led to believe a certain world view of an entity only to find out they were milking your data.
Are you mistaking your interactions with low level trades roles (the guy who's making bank fixing power sockets on the weekend) with say, the people maintaining factory electrical systems? or designing them?
Nah more like the guy who wires up the whole house.
Factory electrical systems are on another level than your typical 110V AC. But given what I know I would say that the factory electrician sits right at the borderline between comparable to SWE and anyone can learn it.
It's not about that. Yes we can expect things made by unskilled artisans to be of low quality, but low quality things existing is fine, and you made low quality things too when you started out programming.
What's new is people treating the chatbox as a source of holy truth and trusting it unquestioningly just because it speaks English. That's weird. Why is that happening?
> What's new is people treating the chatbox as a source of holy truth and trusting it unquestioningly just because it speaks English. That's weird. Why is that happening?
"People" in this case is primarily the CxO class.
Why is AI being shoved everywhere, and trusted as well? Because it solves a 2 Trillion dollar problem.
Ditto, but .net dev for ~20 years, now fully Linux for personal compute. Workplace is making a beeline for mac / linux full stack, and completely ditching Windows.
I'm interpreting it as closer to pity, rather than genuine criticism =)
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