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link to the poll https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/
We don't even have the ability to refuse to pay for the power it uses. People reporting their power bills (and water bills) are going up from it.
My company pays for GH Copilot and Cursor and they track your usage. My usage stats glitched at one point I guess showing that I hadn't used it for a week and I got a call from my manager
Wow. I'd find a new job as soon as possible.
I want to but they pay far above average wage for CS in my country and it's fully remote 😅. I've also been there long enough that I know pretty much my whole org's codebase and i really don't want to start fresh again. Golden handcuffs I guess
Fair enough. In that case I guess maybe you could automate your way around it. Run it in the background generating nonsense every so often.
Uggh, that sounds like hell. If you're gonna tell people exactly how to do their job you might as well have a machine do it. Right? My contribution is the fact that I do things with my own flair. My customers love me because I respond and behave like a unique and identifiable real person they know, not like a robotic copycat sycophant clone. Sometimes my jokes miss the first time, but over time I build meaningful repitoire with my customers. I truly empathize with their concerns because I see how the industry crushes them, have been there myself, and I understand what it means not just in the sense of being able to see and define concepts, but I can understand how it feels from perspectives that take a lifetime to develop and I can identify the ripple effects that people feel in their lives due to work environments, budget crunches, policy changes, etc. I would rather deliver bad news awkwardly as a human than have chat gtp do it and I would rather receive it the same way also.
Can they read the logs?
I'd have the AI writing all the emails to the top brass.
"Why aren't you using AI?"
"Uhhhhhh........core fundamental difference of ethics?"