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slopinthebag • yesterday at 8:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

i suppose i differ in the opinion that the most important thing about software are the users, and to the extent that AI can be used to create better software faster for them we should use it. i don't share the same moral qualms about AI, but even if i did i think there would be a strong argument that the benefits outweigh it.

developer communities can also be valuable but i think increasingly people are finding they can be quite toxic. the chillest communities i've found have actually been ones primarily made up of non-devs vibecoding. no egos, no endless arguments, holy war battles, or bikeshedding. they just build stuff and share. it's kind of nice acutally.


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palata • yesterday at 9:01 PM

> even if i did i think there would be a strong argument that the benefits outweigh it.

I disagree. I think AI centralises power and reinforces inequalities, and that's before we talk about cybersecurity and carbon footprint.

It is not clear at all that the benefits outweigh that.

What is clear, though, is that it's a very useful tool to write software.

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