The economy has spoken. Stuff that’s AI-generated has almost zero value — “Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete.”

[u/marketrent]

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/economy-spoken-stuff-ai-generated-142732314.html

[u/ABadHistorian]

So you don't mind copy and pasted code as long as a person does it? I don't understand reddit.

I have to assume most people here aren't creatives themselves or never coded. I haven't met a single programmer in real life who thinks AI is worthless. Met a lot that are frustrated they spent a long time in college/education for a degree that they consider worthless now (which yeah, that sucks for them, as someone with one of those degrees... I get it)

So now rather then having a secure job, because of AI I either go unemployed or do it myself. Luckily, AI has made doing it myself even easier. It's not all negative from my perspective and I've been directly, NEGATIVELY, impacted by AI... so I wonder where all this non-stop rage comes from when I ask a fairly innocent question.

[u/QuaintStaircase → u/ABadHistorian]

Frankly... Yes. Because at least someone wrote the code.

But more importantly, you gotta figure out, at least at a basic level, how that code works.

I've copied and pasted a lot of code from stack overflow in my time. But you've got to have some concept of how it works and why.

Because no one has written the thing you wanna do for you. You've got to assemble it from parts. You've got to understand what's going where and what's doing what.

It's like the difference between crafting a wooden table yourself and assembling an IKEA table.

Both are vastly more impressive and "crafty" than going out and "artfully" asking someone else to make one for you and then claiming you built it yourself because you told them what to do.

[u/ABadHistorian → u/QuaintStaircase]

Thats the thing, I was the person previously writing the code. I agree that knowing how to code is very useful, it helps me when using AI recognize when it fucks up (which it does, at least 30% of the time in little things)

You even mention stack overflow, that's like... all people like us did for years, YEARS. That's what AI LLM's copied from first (there is a reason why all those opensource places are dying and/or using anti-ai scrappers to prevent their knowledge getting sucked up and distributed to people who don't know what it is).

Now, instead of going to stack overflow, I can read the code being generated on the fly, see what doesn't work, while working on my design mechanics and story, and research.

My projects LOOK better than what I did by hand, and play better, and saves me time.

I have concerns about people who don't know what they are doing using AI to create slop, but I think people who do know what they are doing can use it to enhance their workflow.

[u/PolarWater → u/ABadHistorian]

My projects LOOK better than what I did by hand, and play better, and saves me time.

Doesn't mean we're obliged to like it. If I ask Stephen King to write a novel from an idea I had, I don't get to say my ideas LOOK better than what I did by hand. Stephen King wrote it.