It's almost certainly also making your code worse.
It's not impossible to use AI effectively (although I would argue it's impossible to use large "frontier" models ethically, as the companies making them are burning the planet down to power the process), but you have to be extremely vigilant and thoughtful about what you're using it for, and you have to review every single line of code it produces, or you're going to miss bugs and you're going to lose skills.
A good way to test yourself is to see if you can still scaffold out an application by hand. Doesn't matter what... A to-do list, some buttons, whatever. Just test yourself to see if you can still do it.
If you can't, then you've lost the skills necessary to be certain that what you're producing with AI is actually good.
And if the idea of testing yourself like this makes you uncomfortable? Then AI isn't a tool you use, it's an addiction.
Windows has an overwhelming market share in PCs. Exploitable vulnerabilities that let hackers own it are going to be huge news for as long as that remains the case, because it directly impacts the lives and personal data of more people.
That said, I'm seeing lots of people talk about this particular Linux vulnerability, so I'm not even sure what your gripe is.
Evidence of vibe-coding. Em dashes and emojis sprinkled throughout the documentation? Code with inline comments pointlessly describing some change, as if you want to know what that block of code used to do more than what it actually does?
It's vibe-coded garbage by someone who doesn't know how to code. Stay far away.
Depends on implementation. Does it keep people sharp, focused, effective, and healthy well into their old age? Fabulous. Does it make people simply limp along like they're half-dead already well into their old age? Fuck that.
A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn't fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn't even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.
And that's why it's up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.
It's also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.
These fucking people... It's literally all projection, always.
The party of "traditional family values," everyone. If we manage to hold anything even remotely resembling free and fair elections in the future, the first order of business afterwards will need to be replacing all upholstery any of them have touched.
Couldn't help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn't seem to do is make things more efficient long term.
No they didn't. CloudFlare created a vibe-coded knockoff of Next.js that will be a nightmare to maintain and no one with half a brain would touch, so they could get a few headlines from credulous outlets like The Pulse.
In reality, this garbage will wither away quickly, because it's a security and stability nightmare created by one guy who hasn't read his own code and doesn't actually know what's in it.
Fuck that. Death is the easy way out for the monsters behaving this way.
I want the chief monster in charge removed, tried, and left to rot in a prison for the rest of his miserable life, without access to orange makeup. And I want every piece of shit that has agreed to work with him to suffer the same fate.
Don't let them become martyrs or allow them to make the lies they tell about us all being the same true. We're not the same. These motherfuckers are trying to destroy the law. The law should fucking destroy them instead.
It's almost certainly also making your code worse.
It's not impossible to use AI effectively (although I would argue it's impossible to use large "frontier" models ethically, as the companies making them are burning the planet down to power the process), but you have to be extremely vigilant and thoughtful about what you're using it for, and you have to review every single line of code it produces, or you're going to miss bugs and you're going to lose skills.
A good way to test yourself is to see if you can still scaffold out an application by hand. Doesn't matter what... A to-do list, some buttons, whatever. Just test yourself to see if you can still do it.
If you can't, then you've lost the skills necessary to be certain that what you're producing with AI is actually good.
And if the idea of testing yourself like this makes you uncomfortable? Then AI isn't a tool you use, it's an addiction.