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 Yeah I'm in agreement. I suppose I sound more against it's existence, which maybe to some degree I admit I'm bothered with lack of "correctness" or attention to detail most AI response lacks, but that's just a gate-keeping mindset. I think more of my concern is the empowerment of ignorance of the unknown. I have been interested in AI code reviews of my existing code-bases for an after-complete error detection assessment and so on. I have so many things on my plate I haven't prioritized any LLM stuff. I also don't have the hardware resources to dedicate local setups, along with the sheer scrappiness of self-hosted models that also bothers me. Again, though I'm aware that's my lack of prioritization. I literally used ollama a couple weeks ago for the first time and failed to get it to work correctly then gave up lol

Summary: Most AI output is unpolished and that bothers me, and I don't believe, in the hands of the general public, there will be incentives to produce, and refine products, and quality of applications/tools will decline. People don't want good, they want good enough. And that's why I sound like I'm whining :)