work is work is work
To put it simply: I do not like this world where people are using AI to generate art, music, writing, and software. So I will not use AI.
via I am done using AI. Which makes me think of the blood robots Craig Mod wrote about. The rush of making and also the way skills disappear, when they are not used.
In relation to my own work Luke Plunkett said it quite well in The Work is the Work:
Let's say I'm an office manager or a HR rep, and my job is to settle a dispute between two workers. To settle that dispute is part of my job, it's why I am there. My skills at talking to people and conveying my thoughts and opinions via email are why I am being paid. If I open up ChatGPT and ask a machine how to do it—a machine that does not know how to do it, it only knows how to synthesize one million examples of this, because it is a machine—I am not doing that work anymore. Anyone could have asked the machine that question.
If I try to solve a conflict between two students by consulting ChatGPT I have failed my job. If I let an LLM write my courses for me I have failed. Because it is what I make, what I decide on that got me the job. That makes me a teacher, who sometimes does a good job. But at least I have character. I grow and I learn from some of my mistakes.
And sure, I could do some of my work without thinking anything through. But I have a job that does not allow for that. Even if I let something else plan, I still have to do it myself. And I'd rather fail at doing something I badly planned myself, than try to follow something I had no part in.
Edit: This here was also good. Values are what you do
Values are what you do, not what you believe.
All in relation to Macstories going back to X for cash moneys and what a shit decision that was.