In recent months I’ve noted a certain “fuck you, change my diaper” mentality that crops up again and again with regard to “AI”
What typifies this is a whirlwind of goalpost juggling, a sort of desperate, insatiable righteousness gasping to justify an existing feeling:
fear
The more I see it, the more I suspect a whole subset of technical practitioners are afraid of losing what they built their identities on: being special computer boys
