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Re: AI and programming.

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:19:45 +0000

I am just attempting to make you aware that "sleeping with the enemy" is a dangerous gambit that could easily have catastrophic consequences for "freedom" and you, personally. Digital knowledge and skills are quickly lost if not used repeatedly. Imagine a future that due reliance on AI solutions, humans lose their ability to effectively control their digital devices? Game over.

Re: AI and programming.

dummy@example.com (liquibyte) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:37:04 +0000

Bro, it's a tool. It's a really useful one too if you control it. I get the fear because for all of human history anything new and good has been used by those in power to control others. Did you say that very thing when the internet came about? Look what they've done to that. We could make amazing things with a computer program as powerful as that and release it to the masses for free for anyone and maybe even better than what exists in the walled gardens. Imagine Linux with a 90% share on the desktop. That's all I'm saying, it's a dead useful tool and if we don't do good with it bad and greedy people will control the world with it. I used it to figure out how to integrate Compton and WPEWebkit into my program and I'm rather pleased with how things worked out. Manually doing that research would have taken me another decade to work out. The code is mine but asking the right questions really steered me to faster results. Am I a bad person for asking for ideas and a little help with the integration path?

Re: AI and programming.

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:52:39 +0000

If you know anything of human history, the pattern is to create new tools/toys which eventually come to bite us badly. That is because humans are fatally flawed in their judgment and motivations. What is needed is a transformation of the human mind from never-ending pursuits of froth and foam that keeps us running in place and repeating the same blunders over and over . . .

IOW . . . we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot!

Perhaps we are what we eat but we definitely become what we think. All the Sci-Fi I read in the 50s is now horrifyingly manifested in our daily life.

We need deep wisdom not a roller coaster of titillation with shiny new s**t to survive the future that is on our doorstep . . .

AI and programming.

dummy@example.com (liquibyte) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:50:03 +0000

What's everyone's thoughts about this post by golinux? Should AI be allowed to help programmers with research or tricky bits of code or should it strictly be verboten? I find that it's a great research tool but apparently some people are dead set against it.