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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:00:03 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Warning: Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media now wants every human programmer to be replaced by Gen AI. Tim O'Reilly/company policy on book editing and writing went from "avoid Gen AI" to "you must use Gen AI as much as possible, we will monitor you through KPIs to use it as much as possible. So avoid O'Reilly books. Support an indie author. Plenty of them out there who write and sell books. No need to support corporate overlords. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kimr4a/warning_tim_oreilly_of_oreilly_media_now_wants/ #ai

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     Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:00:40 JST Jörn Nettingsmeier

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     @nixCraft Weird decision to frame such a warning based on a single individual's opinion. There are a lot of dissenting voices in that reddit discussion. I find this posting sloppy at best, irresponsible at worst. Otherwise, I'm generally enjoying your posts.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Jørn (jornane@ipv6.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:00:40 JST Jørn

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     • Jörn Nettingsmeier

     @nettings @nixCraft I checked some of the comments in that thread. This one seems pretty descriptive. It cites a blog post by O’Reilly. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kimr4a/comment/mrj3rno/

     «There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today.»

     How is that NOT an indication that O’Reilly is trying to cash out his good name on AI? The warning is warranted.

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     Tody Motmot (todymotmot@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 16:59:19 JST Tody Motmot

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     @nixCraft

     Can we just create an alternate AI world for billionaires where they can think they're replacing us with AI, flying to Mars, exploiting workers, making a gazillion dollars, etc.?

     Meanwhile we normal, mentally-less-damaged people can get back to real world problems and deal with climate change, poverty, wars, etc 👍

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