[SepiaSapient]

> target for all manner of negativity ranging from snark to harassment to malicious action

We get get the Borg-esque "resistance is futile" spiel, someone asks for examples. One guy (kinda smugly tbh) points us to his (neat) online course website, claiming that it took him 1 month to rebuild with Claude, ergo GP is right and the non-AI dev is destined to extinction. As WooCommerce didn't end all web development before, he gets some good-natured ribbing.

I find the AI booster dynamic of "you are fool and will get replaced" to "I'm a smoll defenseless bean" kinda puzzling.

[peteforde]

That is not a coherent reply to my point, which is that you guys are like school yard bullies to people naive enough to throw chum into the water.

We've seen this play out so many times. Nobody working on anything serious is going to volunteer to be a target for your BS.

I sincerely wish that people would stop falling for the "prove you're not hallucinating" trap. If winning was possible - and it's not - there would be no prize but more snark and harassment.

[SepiaSapient]

I didn't say Mr. Johnny was hallucinating, or that he's lying. Was finding the "Written by humans" humorous the most polite comment ever? No, but it is absurd to call it harassment. Specially considering it matched his energy.

His website is cool, and from what I could skim from the content I'm sure his clients are happy and find it worthwhile. I'm not being facetious. He said Claude saved him time, which is true. Regardless of that, I believe he wildly overestimated how much time it would've taken. A website that could be a Wordpress install with plugins isn't technically interesting. It does not validate what @halfmatthalfcat said.

LLMs are capable and impressive. I'm not doubting that, but we do this song and dance [0] each time of grandiose statements and subsequent disappointment. My wariness is not violence against you or anybody.

I specially resent being called a bully for not coaching my language in every possible way. I'm not the avatar of your every forum trauma.

https://www.theregister.com/special-features/2026/01/26/curs...

[peteforde]

To be clear, you took something that I said generally - and is not just easily defended but obvious - and made it all about you and your comment.

The pattern I'm talking about is easily repeatable. Someone says that they used LLMs to do something, people demand to see proof, and no matter what it is a sockpuppet army arrives on cue to insult and snipe. It doesn't matter if it's total shit or really impressive, it's the kneejerk aspect that makes it unsane to actually take the bait.

Meanwhile, everyone in this thread seems to assume that the website Mr. Johnny was talking about having used LLMs to build quickly was the one linked in his profile. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but the river of snark was flowing before anyone had any confirmation of what they were actually supposed to be shitty about.

That's the tip off that you are a member of a pack of bullies, whether you're consciously aware of it or not. If you were actually offering opinions in good faith, you'd clarify the subject before jumping to snark.

[etdznots]

> We have found the god machine. It makes all human beings that don’t embrace it irrelevant, if you resist you will be swallowed by the void.

Really? Can you show me something you’ve used it for?

> You are nothing but a bully and an arse good day to you!