And the cruel irony is that they stole our work to train the AI that devalues our work going forward, and will cause many of us to lose our jobs.

I regret every line of open source code I ever wrote.

This process can even feel a bit like parasitism, it empties out the host, like in <Alien>.

> I regret every line of open source code I ever wrote

And every stack overflow post, every reddit post, everything.

I regret participating in the open Internet.

Here I am anyways, I guess. It's just in my genes or something.

Same. I've scrubbed my presence as much as possible from the majority of the internet (except HN for whatever reason) to prevent future models from being trained on my output, but the damage is already done. Part of me exists in pretty much all AI models now, without my consent. And those models are actively stealing my career and passions.

Is this "escape route" in the room with us now?

This was an incredible video, and I feel so many complex emotions after watching it. I wonder where everyone in that video is now.

Sounds like there's some controversy about this video though. There was some accusations that it was staged, and / or that this was NOT the first contact this tribe had.

The narration in the video says its tobacco

I've never once gotten that impression from him

There is legit grief associated with what AI is doing to our craft, and we're all trying to grapple with it in our own ways

I often feel like this as well. It's hard to talk about it with people, because they panic and immediately start sending you literature about suicidality and giving you hotlines, etc, etc, as if I haven't already seen all of that before.

I'm not actively suicidal or anything (and I know all the signs of risk, and what to do about it), but there's an underlying feeling that life just hurts and has no meaning. Currently the thing that helps me stick around is the idea of "doing it for the plot". Life ends in short order either way, so I figure I'll just stick around and keep it interesting.

> More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier.

I assume this work will be done for Opus as well? Opus has seemingly gotten progressively worse at its prose and technical writing with each version. I've stopped using Claude entirely for now, because it manages to turn even the simplest technical explanation into the most obtuse and obfuscated word salad imaginable. People originally adopted Claude because it felt pleasant to use in comparison to ChatGPT, but I feel like that's really been lost (at least with the Opus line).

I feel dread when I see a wall of text generated by Opus. Every developer I've talked to feels similarly right now.

> I feel a sinking feeling of dread the moment I see a wall of text generated by Opus

Agree, Claude lost the joy of using it.

That is a measure that ranks higher than any other benchmark at this point.

Yes! Claude was so pleasant to use at first. It was Anthropic's biggest advantage. And now it's like nails on a chalkboard.

Yeah, it's like day and night. It used to be really unpleasant to interact with early codex versions. Even 5.3 wasn't great. Now, I go to Sol if I need to discuss anything. I don't even bother with Opus because I know that it's going to give me a headache.

Yeah, for all the hate Gemini gets, at least it isn't obsessed with adding comments and it's output is more readable than recent Claude's.

Or Auvelity, which is a newer one that mixes Bupropion and DXM.