@mttaggart Thanks. It makes me feel less… alone.

I'm trying hard to keep some sort of materialist analysis of what's going on. Yet I can't get myself around the fact that what I've been studying for years (CS then NLP) pretty much amounts to either join "software engineers" that are just glorified code reviewers, or "AI engineers" who are just wrecking havoc everywhere.

I could enter academia in the linguistics field (minority languages ftw). But the funds are dire and the chances are slim…

@mttaggart I was told it is futile to keep seeing writing code as a craft. That I'm being reactionary for not wanting to let AI take over "my work".
After all, I can do mental math, but a calculator is going to do it faster and better than myself, and I gladly use it.
I can filter thousands of files by hand, but a shell script will do it faster and better than myself, and I gladly use it.

Then why wouldn't I use AI to make my life easier? It's already there after all.

It sickens me. Every day.

@vicgrinberg there's a legend about Sirius A that used to be red before being blue. Is there any way for stars, aside from aging, to "suddenly" or not-so-suddenly change color in their lifetime?

I mostly have in mind depictions from movies where a star gets eaten by star-goo and turns green; or a "supernova-weapon" turns it an otherworldly color before it, well, goes supernova.