That's actually pretty funny. They're patting it on the back for using, in all likelihood, some significant portions of code that they actually wrote, which was stolen from them without attribution so that it could be used as part of a very expensive parlour trick.

Did you do diffs to confirm the code as stolen or are you just speculating.

> AI usage should be banned in general. It takes jobs faster than creating new ones ..

I don't have an strong opinion about that in either direction, but curious: Do you feel the same about everything, or is just about this specific technology? For example, should the nail gun have been forbidden if it was invented today, as one person with a nail gun could probably replace 3-4 people with normal "manual" hammers?

You feel the same about programmers who are automating others out of work without the use of AI too?

> It takes jobs faster than creating new ones ..

You think compiler engineer from Google gives a single shit about this?

They’ll automate millions out of career existence for their amusement while cashing out stock money and retiring early comfortably.

> It takes jobs faster than creating new ones ..

I have no problems with tech making some jobs obsolete, that's normal. The problem is, the job being done with the current generation of LLMs are, at least for now, mostly of inferior quality.

The tools themselves are quite useful as helpers in several domains if used wisely though.

Businesses do not exist to create jobs; jobs are a byproduct.

Even that is underselling it; jobs are a necessary evil that should be minimised. If we can have more stuff with fewer people needing to spend their lives providing it, why would we NOT want that?

Because we've built a system where if you don't have a job, you die.

This is already hyperbolic; in most countries where software engineers or similar knowledge workers are widely employed there are welfare programmes.

To add to that, if there is such mass unemployment in this scenario it will be because fewer people are needed to produce and therefore everything will become cheaper... This is the best kind of unemployment.

So at best: none of us have to work again and will get everything we need for free. At worst, certain professions will need a career switch which I appreciate is not ideal for those people but is a significantly weaker argument for why we should hold back new technology.

Most of those welfare programs aren't very good, and most of that is on purpose, to make people get jobs at whatever cost.

If you were to rank all of the C compilers in the world and then rank all of the welfare systems in the world, this vibe-coded mess would be at approximately the same rank as the American welfare system. Especially if you extrapolate this narcissistic, hateful kleptocracy out a few more years.

Did we build it or did nature?

We did.

Jobs are a means, not a goal.

Jobs are the only way that you survive in this society (food, shelter). Look how we treat unhoused people without jobs. AI is taking jobs away and that is putting people's survival at risk.