Comment by zephen

Your position makes an immense amount of sense for your described situation.

As I said, I'm retired, and so I've never had to clean up AI slop at $DAYJOB.

Since the whole AI thing would be a learning experience for me, it would include trying to toilet train the AI itself, as others have intimated can be done in some cases, rather than dealing with a bunch of already-checked-into-the-repo-slop.

And that may be a losing proposition. I don't know; haven't tried it yet.

> Would much rather spend the time making my own artisanal tradslop instead if it’s gonna take me the same amount of time anyway - at least it’s more enjoyable.

Although I haven't had the AI experience you describe, I have had a similar experience with coworkers who moved fast and broke all kinds of shit. That was similarly no fun. It's like trying to work on your wife's minivan, but she won't pull over and let you properly fix it.

Given sufficient time, I enjoy polishing/perfecting/refactoring code. My final output often looks radically different from my prototype. It is clear to me that I would hate the situation you describe. It is not clear to me that starting with prompted slop and wrangling it into submission would be much less enjoyable to me than writing my own slop and then wrangling it into submission.

> especially when I find the people I’d be giving money to so reprehensible.

This is a bit of a concern, but I'm pretty sure that, at the moment, every token you burn costs them more than you.