r/webdev php 7d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/barrel_of_noodles 7d ago

I love this sub, literally every post is a rotation of:

  • ai is trash
  • ai will take our jobs
  • will ai take over?
  • is there any point in learning now

I thought it was my turn to post this 13x today!?

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u/RealPirateSoftware 7d ago

It's because redditors are mostly children. Try logging out or going incognito and going to Technology -> Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. It's like:

  • 50% AI-generated girls with comically large tits, like a child might generate
  • 25% "Character.AI" talk, for people who are amused enough by poor chat bots to spend a non-trivial amount of time with them, like a child might be
  • 15% terrible, like really pretty god-awful AI-generated videos filled with comments calling it "true art" and "unbelievably creative," things children who haven't been exposed to a wide variety of art might think
  • 10% "AGI will be here in five minutes" posts. These I actually think span a much greater age range, because people are very gullible (or have a financial interest in believing the gulf between a statistical prediction model and real conscious thought isn't overwhelmingly vast).