Comment by bananapub

> Mediocre people produce mediocre work. Using AI might make those mediocre people produce even worse work, but I don't think it'll affect competent people who have standards regardless of the available tooling.

this is clearly not the case, given:

- mass layoffs in the tech industry to force more use of such things - extremely strong pressure from management to use it, rarely framed as "please use this tooling as you see fit" - extremely low quality bars in all sorts of things, e.g. getting your dumb "We wrote a 200 word prompt then stuck that and some web scraped data in to an LLM run by Google/OpenAI/Anthropic" site to the top of hacker news, or most of VC funding in the tech world - extremely large swathes of (at least) the western power structures not giving a shit about doing anything well, e.g. the entire US Federal government leadership now, or the UK government's endless idiocy about "AI Policy development", lawyers getting caught in court having just not even read the documents they put their name on, etc - actual strong desire from many people to outsource their toxic plans to "AI", e.g. the US's machine learning probation or sentencing stuff

I don't think any of us are ready for the tsunami of garbage that's going to be thrown in to every facet of our lives, from government policy to sending people to jail to murdering people with robots to spamming open source projects with useless code and bug reports etc etc etc