There’s a variety of reasons, but the biggest is that Lemmy as a whole is FAR more class-conscious than the average populace, or even that average internet user, and generative AI has been developed by the wealthy and powerful, as a tool to oppress everyone else.

Machine learning in medicine and healthcare has been around for decades, and has basically nothing to do with the LLM and image generation garbage that has now colloquially become known as “AI”.

Half the problem with “AI hate” is how goddamned nebulous of a term it’s become. When people say they hate AI, they’re almost certainly talking about specifically all the new generative commercialized stuff from just the past few years, but so many people hear that and assume something a LOT broader.

How is it that eBay doesn’t have any resposibility for helping to crack down on these?

Woah, AI maybe not so bad after all?

Do you think you are being overworked compared to the industry standard (from experience or vibes) ?

Hell no. I don’t have personal experience, but I read enough social media from other software devs to know I’ve got it pretty good.

What are your responsibilities ?

I’m the de-facto UI guy on the team, and also kinda the team lead’s go-to debugger for PROD issues. But we all do at least a little bit of everything. Really, we’re all considered “responsible” for the systems/features we’ve built personally, in that if an issue comes up on something I built, the team lead comed to me first about it. Usually.

Do you do application deployments ?

Not directly. The main server guy does the actual work of building the deployment artifacts and copying them up to the server, while the main database guy does the same for all database artifacts, including assembling migrations scripts.

But our monthly scheduled deployments are a full-team affair. We’re all on a call together, and we’re all testing the stuff we worked on to make sure it deployed properly, and on occasion when something goes wrong, we’re whipping up a hotfix on the spot.

What does the ownership look like in your compan. Do devs own everything and perform all tasks for the application to function? ( server management, server user profile management, application hosting, etc )

I touched on it a little above, but there’s definitely roles, although the lines are blurry.

One guy does all the server maintenance stuff, that falls through the server provider’s responsibilities. He also is the de-facto lead of our auth systems.

One guy is the de-facto database lead. He does almost all of our ETL-related work, and often will be the first prototyper of new features or new workloads, by just playing around with data in the database and figuring out how to properly map it into what users want to see.

One gal is our de-facto quality control. Generally, she does a secondary review of every change that gets merged, to check for regressions and such. This is particularly useful when multiple people end up working on changes to the same feature or system, and don’t necessarily coordinate with each other.

Me, I mentioned, I’m the de-facto lead for UI, as I’m the one who spearheaded the effort to get us using TypeScript, and wrote almost all of our TypeScript “framework”.

One guy is, I guess you could say, the de-facto lead for all our legacy features, that still run on jQuery and CSLA, and other nonsense. And we have a lot of those.

The last guy doesn’t really have any AREA that I’d say he’s a lead for, simply because he’s not been around long enough to really build onele. He’s cranked out quite a few big features, and would definitely be considered a lead on those.

Do you work off hours ?

VERY rarely.

Do you make the industry standard or are you paid less ?

Don’t really know, honestly. Probably a bit under. I’m at like 110k/year, I think? In a relatively-low-cost-of-living area.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.