It rocks how Vercel has spent so much time and money on marketing Next.js that my product manager tried to tell me last year that I had to use it. In his mind we wouldn't be able to build our app correctly (an SPA that barely a couple hundred people use) or find developers since everyone uses and knows Next.js.
truly hate how hard these guys have made my job by making react popular.
> When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
Maybe you just think you're being more productive ;)
Finally made the switch to DuckDuckGo a few months ago after they introduced a feature that lets you hide AI images. They still have AI features and summaries, but you can at least easily opt out.
Every blog post about AI now is something along the lines of "hmm, yeah I guess AI doesn't really replace software engineers like they said it would, but maybe it'll be better tomorrow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
That's my point. I don't understand why you'd undertake performative protests against an idea you can't triumph over. Do you remove your songs from Apple Music because of the Client Side Scanning or Push Notification scandals? Would you remove your songs from Bandcamp because Epic made Fortnite and diminishes the tragedy of real war?
Extrapolated to the extremes of "I don't want megalomaniacs publishing my music" you just end up with nobody ever hearing your songs.
I feel like your chosen examples are very disingenuous. If you're comparing data harvesting/leakage and video games to the atrocities caused by Big Military and the direction it's headed, you must be very disconnected from the real human casualty and suffering.
But to answer your point, yes. People have the autonomy to not do business with individuals and corporations that don't align with their values. It's a personal choice. You may not understand it, but if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.
Well, define "big military" then. Do you mean the military industrial complex? Because famously, the private corporations aren't the ones demanding that we design superweapons or send your loved ones to war. That's congress, that's the Commander-in-Chief. Your elected representatives take the deterministic actions that decide who lives and dies in conflict, otherwise war would be apolitical.
He's well within his rights to protest whatever he wants. Prioritizing a beef with Spotify just seems hardly self-consistent with protesting the technological advancement of the military.
> if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.
A functioning democracy only requires that people vote. If you want to take serious action towards world disarmament, stop voting pants-on-head insane representatives into power. You could bankrupt every single PMC and military contractor in the world, and governments would invent their own to fill their own security needs.
I appreciate them doing stuff like this. When management pushes me to use AI everywhere it's nice to be able to point stuff like this to get them to back off.
truly hate how hard these guys have made my job by making react popular.