[colordrops]

> Mastodon has a culture that actively pushes back against many of the things people might want to build - any experiments with things like search or discovery improvements or even potentially algorithmic feeds tend to get a very hostile reaction from long-time Mastodon users.

I noticed the same thing about AI in the Nix community. Was really surprised by the extreme negative reaction, as I could see so many applications of AI that could be useful in the Nix ecosystem.

[computably]

I don't see how it's surprising at all, given the current climate of overmarketing and overpromising on "AI" in tech. The most realistic applications are also the most straightforward - academic cheating, machine-generated "art," mediocre automated customer support, and so forth.

[colordrops]

It's surprising because I thought Nix users were more discerning and not caught up in binary thinking. Just because it's overhyped doesn't mean it doesn't have any uses or should be rejected completely. I just solved a dnsmasq and systemd issue today in a 3 minute chat with Claude-sonnet 3.5 that I had been banging my head against for 6 hours. Why wouldn't I try to harness that?

[computably]

Sorry, I'm not part of the Nix community so I don't have the context to answer that. Although I would infer from "so many applications of AI," you meant more than just technical support chatbots.

[kkarakk]

Projects should just bite the bullet and say "AI friendly" so those conservative anti tech users can pre-emptively be pushed away. Might hurt adoption but better than holding back progress. One of the reasons i don't use bluesky much is coz they came out swinging anti AI