[_ZeD_]

what baffles me is how much more rage is coming from any other creative workers (painters, filmmakers, musicians) than from programmers.

Why are programs - the result of the ingenuity of people working in software field - not protected against AI slop stuff.

Why is there not any kind of narrative out there describing how fake and soulless is code written by any AI agent?

[eloisant]

Because for other workers the threat is much bigger. I'm not a painter, filmmaker or musician, but now I can make a picture, a short movie or a song. Yes it will be mediocre, but if I'm fine with mediocre I no longer need those professionals.

Programs on the other hand still need developers to make. Also, we've seen decades of tooling evolution that (1) made developers more productive (2) failed to replace developers.

[_shadi]

> Why is there not any kind of narrative out there describing how fake and soulless is code written by any AI agent?

because soulless code does not matter. For other fields the result is more subjective, I don't like movies with desaturated color palette, a lot of people like them, maybe LLMs can produce new genre of movies, which people who appreciate classic films or music find it soulless, and find it sad that the peasants kind of like these films and the whole thing a risk for their careers or whole craft and the human effort in making their art work.

In code its objective, either the result work or not work, I guess you can stretch "it works" to have a different meaning that can include maintainability where it starts to get more subjective, but at the end of the day you will also can get to a point where the whole thing can collapse under its weight.

I think this is the main difference in reaction to LLMs between different fields, fields that are subjective and more to sensitive to receiver taste you can notice a rage(I think range is an overstatement) against it, while fields where the result is objective the reaction from people is simply saying it does or doesn't work.

[Copenjin]

Because there already was slop written by humans, and I think that in many cases the AI slop is better looking.

[protocolture]

>not protected against AI slop stuff.

Programmers are by and large not assholes adverse to sharing, which is why we have copyleft and stack overflow..

Coding is also a process, a process that you may need to go through many times. The creation and maintenance of expert systems

Artists tend to want to win it big once, never innovate, and use the government to force people to send them money.