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20 years ago things weren’t so shit

Stuff like that was also kind of present in the past.

My non-gamer friends suddenly became gamers thanks to 3D games.

I remember people telling me not to buy a video game controller, because everything will be motion controls in the future.

My stepfather wanted to cut our cable TV internet the moment 3G modems came out. He even talked about Soviet TVs with wired remotes to try to convince me and my mother.

My late stepmother accepted that I won't go to a trade school to become some kind of repairman after Facebook became popular, although she thought "software developer" was the same as "CNC machine programmer".

I call this phenomenon "normietech", and AI is the worst example of it.

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What does it mean for a programming language to be AI slop?

Though Rust suffers from the same kind of toxic positive hype that is also driving AI, it's not slop so far.

D has some bigger issues, as some community members, especially discord member Serg Gini, think we need to embrace AI as much as possible, including straight out vibe coding in the standard library and the compiler, this allegedly already led to issues with the lesser used Dcompute (GPU, etc.) target. Some community members (including me) are thinking about creating a fork, with our own improvements on the language that would make it better to use (such as fixing opApply) rather than chasing trends dictated by tech oligarchs in the hopes of getting tech oligarch money, and hustlebro users that like to LARP as software devs.