I was coding professionally for 15 years; now retired, making web/mobile apps for fun and a small profit. I found LLMs to be really useful for what I do. A typical feature (Flutter + Appwrite) without an agent takes me 3 days; with an agent, it takes 3 hours. I don't do vibe-coding: front-end and backend generated separately, code reviewed.

The problem is that I usually procrastinate on those 2.5 days that the agent's work saves me.
I kinda have an inner manager who says: Good job! Rest 2 days. I don't want 2 days; I want 2 hours and continue.

Interested in tips, tricks, and psychological advice from those who have had a similar problem.

I just wanted to share a phenomenon that I've observed (that I'm sure y'all have as well), which I'm dubbing "AI Quality Delusion".

The basic idea is that many people who use AI seem to have a firm belief that it's more reliable than it actually is at producing high-quality content that convincingly seems human-made. They believe this so strongly that when they generate art, writing, etc. and people immediately clock it as AI, they're genuinely shocked. Not only that, but they seem so convinced by the quality of the output that they assume the accusations must be baseless, and that they have plausible deniability as long as they just deny using AI. I've seen this from not only individuals online, but also corporations.

It's worth pointing out that a lot of content these days gets accused of being AI, including stuff that may genuinely be human-made. But I've seen this happen with tons of art and text posts that are painfully obvious to have been generated with AI, where the creator still persistently denies it.

I did initially feel bad for the OP because they got a pretty bad score on their final test but now I understand why.

I was at my parents house last week and for the first time in a long time I watched some TV and the commercials there are supercheap AI slop why are companies doing that .like a the spot to send the commercial is expensive and the AI vid they used made most of the time no sense

I wrote this because I’ve been trying to make sense of the sudden shift from AI executives promising utopia to warning us, with remarkable solemnity, that the thing they’re building might destroy us. I don’t think we need to take that warning on its own terms to ask what it does. The apocalypse story tells investors that AI is historically consequential, invites governments to treat it as indispensable, and turns our attention toward a future monster rather than the exploitation, environmental damage, and cultural flattening already happening. Maybe the most comforting part of AI doom is the suggestion that the real catastrophe hasn’t arrived yet. I’d be curious what people here think: does all this doomerism undermine the industry, or help keep it alive?

I’m sick of seeing these ai slop ads every few seconds when I scroll through my feed. As much as I hate google they have this feature and it works. Tiktok, youtube, facebook all also have a working “not interested” button. Even Twitter has it although I doubt its actual efficacy. They already collect all our data why not take more. It can’t be that hard :/

Does anyone have insight into why this would be not already implemented?

I live in a college town and do marketing for a business. Sometimes student groups will approach us and ask us to do work for us as a learning opportunity/experience.

I just got an email from one of them asking for a sponsorship. I had some questions and just got sent back the most generic, ChatGPT response I’ve ever seen. Like, didn’t even try to make it look like they wrote it themselves by tweaking a few things. Now I don’t want to work with them because if they’re being so lazy as to use ChatGPT to answer some basic questions, how am I going to trust you to not do a half assed job with the tasks I give?

Seriously what is this argument

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-manslaughter-sentencing-vacated-due-use-ai-victim-impact-statement.amp

I'm an illustrator and I study advertising and i've been biting more than I can chew, i'm making a lot of projects due to next week.

I sadly think I have to give in and let the rest of my classmates help making the visual stuff, since they asked me to and I'm starting to have no time or energy to create my own content with this deadlines I have. They told me I have to learn to let go because i can't do it all alone:(

Am I a terrible person for that?

I've always tried to escape from AI and avoid it and i love creating, drawing, etc and i've made a few good assigments for myself but I can't keep up right now

And I feel i'm failing artists for letting my classmates use AI based on my work, but if i refuse, i'm delaying them and putting our grade in danger

What do you think?

I always learned art was the process, never the finished product (the product is cool and all but that isn’t the meat of it). I want to look at a piece of work and say “that guy spent atleast an hour of their day to make this piece of art” (this is probably why I like to cook and write so much). Ai just goes, “here’s your finished work” with nothing behind it. The reason why I don’t like Ai art isn’t because it looks bad (quite the contrary really), but I just immediately loses -33% points because I can’t feel the effort the person put behind it. +all of the harassment / peer pressure in some Ai supporters do (not all remember) and it naturally reduces another -20% points. Little side effect is that I actually prefer the lower quality Ai work over the advanced ones because you don’t really lose too much from a % if the number is already low. Finally all of the environmental damage the Ai business has done (ignoring the water mostly tbh) which is kind of a nail in the coffin.

Sincerely for reading this,
Crabking

Brain test: choose one of these equations and solve them on a piece of paper
Square root of 122
34*22
2/1222

Note: posted this on Ai war and the pros didn’t like it

I could never imagine when there will be such a time when you won't be able to tell the difference between real and AI

Environmental concerns aren't the only argument people have against AI.

Consider:

• Everywhere you look now, there's poor-quality AI content, whether it's something a company has put out or a post on social media. People are pumping out low-quality material incredibly fast because of AI.
• Poorly written software.
• Plagiarism.
• Leaning on AI for thinking, writing, or problem-solving can weaken people's own skills and critical thinking. And in school this can hurt learning itself, students who outsource essays or homework may pass the assignment without actually absorbing the material, leaving gaps that show up later in exams, higher-level courses, or the workplace.
• AI makes scams, phishing, cyberattacks, and harassment possible at scale.
• Misinformation and deepfakes: AI makes it cheap to produce fake images, voices, videos, and convincing false text, which erodes trust in what's real.
• Confidently stated errors: AI can "hallucinate," giving wrong facts, citations, or advice that sound authoritative.

And even on the environmental side, you have to factor in chip and hardware production, not just the impact of running the servers. There are plenty of serious arguments against AI.

My biggest personal frustration is the quality gap between AI-generated work and the work of a skilled person who has invested real time and effort. I see it daily at the software company where I work: without human oversight of every small decision, AI output is consistently poor, and the result is a lot of low-quality work being produced everywhere.

Of course it can speed some things up, and occasionally it handles a detail better than you would have. I'm not saying it isn't a great tool. But the overall quality still falls short.

People make it out to be more than it is: it's not a superhuman, it's a tool. The hype paints a false picture of where we actually are technologically. And some people are rightly against it, because it comes with real downsides too.

And just because AI isn't the leading cause of environmental damage doesn't mean it's harmless either.

I love movies and music and I recently found out that that Playboi Carti's entire verse on the song Timeless by The Weeknd was A.I. and that the movie Sinners heavily used AI in its production.

AI is poisoning all the arts and its shameful that so many musicians and directors cosign it.

Some people probably believe this, even tho its soooooo obviously a fake ai scam.

(saw on a YT ad)

https://usbest1.com/products/16075318535720167509421170?utm_source=ad&utm_medium=google&utm_origin=shopline&utm_campaign=631616&utm_content=24107059884&adset_id=199757510580&utm_term=820051862608&aatid=5187884844

almost every ad i get is ai

Ed Zitron has a very coherent look at the economic realities of the whole AI industry.

Kinda a rabbit hole I fell down where I found that there is a really weird community of people who are making ai-generated content about being an amputee, particularly translumbar and quad?

This is extremely bizarre because some accounts are either using shockingly realistic AI and then very poor quality AI, or real individuals posts about being an amputee.

These people are making really bizarre posts including people sitting outside showing them sitting on fresh stumps.

This concerns me mostly as some of these videos seem to include real women. Particularly before their amputations, and then ai generated content of them following that.

I've noticed the majority of these posts also use a British voice and ethnic women particularly from the Middle East. Is this one person's work?

I censored their faces as I believe these could be deep fakes. Some of these videos are incredibly popular.

What are the purpose of these posts! Is it a fetish or is it for money and views?

This is beyond sad... it's nice to know that most of the people on the sub are vehemently against ai, but people like this exist and are encouraged by society. The sub is meant to be about learning and sharing your own projects and is the one place you write code just to learn, the products will never be used. Yet here we with people who use ai heavily in their projects that are far too advanced and make the new 12yo who just learnt python feel worthless. Plus it's an ai generated defense post, if you couldn't tell