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+title: "The AI files – posts that are leaving an impression"
+slug: cloud-agnostic-8
+tags: [software-development, ai]
+date: 2025-06-07 19:00:00
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+
+I am not ready yet to form coherent thoughts on AI, or rather, the subject has an almost unfortunate depth
+as companies with a near-infinite war chest are pouring billions upon billions of cash into LLMs to make
+the subject completely unavoidable in tech, drowning any critical voices by the sheer mass that has been 
+put into motion to only God knows which direction.
+
+Of course, many people have been thinking about the subject and this post collect a number of articles 
+from people who still try to retain their own voice within a vast growing sea of AI slop. This post is mostly
+a collection of links to articles that have me thinking about the current trends in IT tech.
+
+### PEOPLE ARE LOSING LOVED ONES TO AI-FUELED SPIRITUAL FANTASIES
+
+At Rolling Stone [they wrote about people][1] who seem to lose themselves in some alternate reality where
+LLMs sometimes seem all-too-capable to indulge you in whatever psychosis is becoming part of you.
+
+### Vibe coding may well destroy your ability to find solutions to problems out of your own intellect
+
+This mastodon post describes a situation where a colleague is showing some strange behavior.
+
+> He basically rotted his own brain by compulsively using ChatGPT in lieu of actually thinking with most 
+> any of the projects he was working on. Instead of taking the time to read through code in our framework, 
+> look up documentation, or do any sort of debugging, he instead just begged and pleaded with ChatGPT to try and get somewhere because "it was faster."
+
+What are addictive activities? Indeed, repeated actions with variable reward. 
+Prompting a LLM chat window to solve a certain task [does carry quite a bit of that][3], if you think about it.
+
+But, [read for yourself][2].
+
+## I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
+
+This is [an account][4] where the emotional reaction to the current crop of generative AI is strongly negative,
+alas the author attempts to understand his position and raises awareness to important issues.
+
+> I have been trying very hard to correct for this bias, 
+> to try to pay attention to the facts and to have a clear-eyed view of these systems’ capabilities. 
+> But the feelings are visceral, and the effort to compensate is tiring. It is, in fact, 
+> the desire to stop making this particular kind of effort that has me writing up this piece and 
+> trying to take an intentional break from the subject, despite its intense relevance.
+
+----
+
+I am certain I will add further updates to this post as interesting posts come along.
+
+
+
+[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/?ref=404media.co
+[2]: https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392
+[3]: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
+[4]: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html