Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Coders Revolt against AI”.
Were we doing merch messages? No we’re doing topics, okay, yeah we’re doing topics. What topic are we doing? I don’t know who cares? Uh stack Overflow users rebel against the site’s open AI deal. This is hilarious. This week, stack Overflow announced that they would be adding an open, AI integration, feeding, past user contributions to chat GPT, as well as using that information to train AI without consulting their user base.
Many users responded by deleting or adding protest messages to their past posts. Stack over flow staff have reportedly responded by suspending those users on mass, then reverting those protest posts to their previous state. Oh dang, wow stack Overflow seemed to have a negative attitude toward generative AI.
Previously Banning answers written by chat GPT just last year – oh, I mean they probably still have that stance, because we know the whole thing where, when AI feeds off of its own data, it gets worse. So they don’t, they don’t want generative AI answers on their site. They just want to sell their site to AI that that makes complete sense to me.
You should also just considered stopping using it, I’m sure, there’s Alternatives but dang that sucks. What are the Alternatives? No! No! No really do you guys know. Stock overflow has been like the thing for a super long time, but this is how this is how you spark competition.
You know, so I’m sure somebody will figure it out. Man, uh heroy, says nothing um, I’m sure someone will figure it out, yeah Reddit, but that sucks too and they’re definitely doing the same thing. They’Re doing the exact same thing bro.
I wonder what you do because, because we know on-site ads are making effectively nothing these days regard like MoneyWise yep, and this type of crowd is just going to be blocking them. Anyways we’ve got a really interesting video coming on deifying your life uh Emily was working on it and it’s pretty cool, but it’s surprising how many of the alter atives are going to cost you a monthly subscription yep like like there’s search engines that you can use That don’t track your stuff and they just cost money, but are super cool and you can like determine your own page, Rank and stuff and like set your own priorities and have no ads in them. And I’ve been thinking about going to a paid uh search engine. For a should watch the video Yeah Emily put a lot of work into researching it. We cover actually pretty cool, I’m excited we covered browser.
We covered search, um browser too yeah. We talked about DNS uh. We talked about oh man, what we’re trying to think of what all of the degify we talked about email. So we because you can, you, can rage about being the product all you want, but if you’re getting the thing for free there, there there’s going to be some value harvested somewhere yeah, you don’t have a leg to stand on and one one problem: the tradeoff one Problem is that you don’t completely avoid it by paying for things, that’s one of the big steps.
Why I haven’t done this yet is like okay, sure I’m paying for this service and you’re, claiming these things things. But what happens from you changing that? What happens this company from being sold to somebody else, and now they own it like what? If Google buys this random browser company, and now they have all their data? These are hopefully things that I can get some amount of information from the video. So we’ll we’ll see um but like yeah, there’s, there’s it’s it’s interesting, but it does get kind of expensive to replace all the free things with things that cost money and these are ongoing services.
So it’s almost certainly going to be monthly subscriptions yep 100. One time bu % and like in theory, you know well, you could self host and we talk a little bit about a Google photos, alternative that you can self host, which is super cool. Even that has cost, though, but there’s a lot of things that, even if they don’t have a cost, don’t make sense to self host like uh email is one that we brought up as as something that you yeah look at.
Look at the look on his face. The physical pain as someone who run services like please the amount of times – and I I I’ve tweeted about this – a bunch of times back when it was actually Twitter. But the amount of times that I have developer applications, especially when it comes to infrastructure, stuff and they apply and they use a custom email and I go to respond to give people interviews and the custom emails just get tossed because deliverability issues, whatever else it happens, Way more than you would think, and from people that think they know what they’re doing better.
Yes, the amount of times that people will include a personal this one sucks, because I recommend that people do it seriously, though check if it works before you send in your resume, please the amount of people that include a personal site on the resume that doesn’t work. It’S like bro or like the domain expired. I’Ve ran into that like it, it would be better for you to not include it on your resume if the domain has expired than to include it and have someone click a dead link on your resume.
Just looks like you didn’t care, but people people have gen a non- insignificant amount, at least over, like we’re talking double. Maybe triple digits of people have lost interviews here, because their custom domain, email, server, thing didn’t work or they typed their email, wrong. Brutal .