alt Hacker NewsDemocratizing coding so regular people can get the most out of computers is the opposite of oppression. You are mistaking your interests for societies interests.
It's the same with artists who are now pissed that regular people can manifest their artistic ideas without needing to go through an artist or spend years studying the craft. The artists are calling the AI companies oppressors because they are breaking the artist's stranglehold on the market.
It's incredibly ironic how socializing what was a privatized ability has otherwise "socialist" people completely losing their shit. Just the mask of pure virtue slipping...
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I used claude code to set up a bunch of basic tools my wife was using in her daily work. Things like custom pomodoro timers, task managers, todo notes.
She used to log into 3 different websites. Now she just opens localhost:3000 and has all of them on the same page. No emails shared with anyone. All data stored locally.
I could have done this earlier but the time commitment with Claude Code now was writing a spec in 5-minutes and pressing approve a few times vs half a day.
I count this as an absolute win. No privacy breaches, no data sharing.
> The artists are calling the AI companies oppressors because they are breaking the artist's stranglehold on the market.
Tt's because these companies profit from all the existing art without compensating the artists. Even worse, they are now putting the very people out of a job who (unwittingly) helped to create these tools in the first place. Not to mention how hurtful it must be for artists seeing their personal style imitated by a machine without their consent.
I totally see how it can empower regular people, but it also empowers the megacorps and bad actors. The jury is still out on whether AI is providing a net positive to society. Until then, let's not ignore the injustice and harm that went into creating these tools and the potential and real dangers that come with it.
When you imagine my position, "I hate these companies for democratizing code/art", then debate that it is called a strawman logical fallacy.
Ascribing the goals of "democratize code/art" onto these companies and their products is called delusion.
I am sure the 3 letter agency directors on these company boards are thrilled you think they left their lifelong careers solely to finally realize their dream to allow you to code and "manifest your artistic ideas".
But people are not creating anything. They are just asking a computer to remix what other people created.
It's incredibly ironic how blatant theft has left otherwise capitalistic people so enthusiastic.
On what planet is concentrating an increasingly high amount of the output of this whole industry on a small handful of megacorps “democratising” anything?
Software development was already one of the most democratised professions on earth. With any old dirt cheap used computer, an internet connection, and enough drive and curiosity you could self-train yourself into a role that could quickly become a high paying job. While they certainly helped, you never needed any formal education or expensive qualifications to excel in this field. How is this better?