I did the same thing. I'm a British football player! I always suspected since I'm a big Ted Lasso fan.

I need to be honest about something: I wrote this post with an AI.

Not just edited by AI. Written with it. I fed it my GDPR data, asked it to analyze the files, and said “help me write a post about this.” The same tool I’m criticizing is the tool I used to criticize it.

And tomorrow, this conversation — me processing my discomfort about data collection — will probably end up in another memories.json somewhere. Another entry in another psychological profile. Another data point about how I think, what I fear, what I’m willing to expose.

I could have written this myself. It would have taken longer. It might have been worse. But I didn’t, because the AI is faster, and I’ve gotten used to outsourcing my thinking.

That’s the trap. It’s not that AI is evil. It’s that it’s genuinely useful. So useful that you keep feeding it, even when you know exactly what it costs.

Even admitting it just seems embarrassing to me, but w/e. Brain-dead gonna brain-dead.

what a meme

I sometimes use ait, but specifically for subjects that I don't know about and don't want to know about.

I'm a developer, I'm all open source and Linux etc. right now I need to build a fairly straightforward rsync solution so that I can regularly update. A directory from a windows server and fuck me is it a shit show. On Linux it'd be a 5 minute task, here I've spent hours trying to first get it to run with cygwin which let me down a rabbit hole through the planet hell and back.

I fairly quickly pulled in Claude to give suggestions on how to get rsync with windows to work because I don't want to know anything about windows. I want to actively keep that info out of my brain lest I get infected by it somehow, so I just spent an hour copy/pasting solutions and results to and from Claude

About half it's solutions were wrong and dumb, but it "knew"certain things like certain versions of rsync in cygwin having a specific bug that affected me that would have me spend hours digging through gulp windows documentation

I got to the point where I dumped cygwin and I'm going to try wsl instead (should have done that from the first moment, probably, but Claude did not tell me THAT)

Point is: AI, so far, is pretty useless and generates little to no usable specificoutput, but it's fairly good at getting you I right directions. For subjects you really do not want to get involved in, it's a nice way to just move forward without a lot of headaches

That is, of course, if you're okay with being recorded, studied, proddded, probed, have your asshole size measured because these fuckers want EVERYTHING from you in return for giving you almost nothing