30 Flirty and Thriving

there is a reason why so many people do not know how their computers work. Everything is hidden behind a fancy GUI to supposedly make things "easy" and "user friendly", but what it actually led to is that people don't fucking know what their computer is actually doing in the background. Things are obfuscated and so it's no wonder that more and more people claim they are "not tech savvy". Why would they be? They are never confronted with how things work, they never have a reason to learn about it (unless things break and then it's already too late). But this is precisely how companies like microsoft managed to sneak in so much bullshit over the years stealing people's data that most people don't even know of, or if they know about it, they don't know how to turn it off. Software like Windows isn't shitty and poorly organized by accident, it's by design. You are not supposed to know where to find stuff and they intentionally make it so people feel overwhelmed before even starting to learn how things work, so they don't even attempt to learn. The complaints about this have been around for a while and they've had more than enough time to fix this, they just don't want to because it clashes with their business model.

now we have AI and instead of learning how to code (or at least read and understand code), people are using it to vibe code stuff that they end up not understanding. And it's the same principle again: It looks shiny on the surface, it seemingly works, it's supposedly quick and easy, so why should people care to learn how to do it themselves?

We don't even know what data these LLMs have been fed with at this point. It's simply too much and they don't exactly have a concise list of sources. For all we know, these companies could even intentionally poison their own LLM to include harmful code in vibe coded programs because harvesting people's data is how they grow the fastest. That's all they care about. And because they are pretty successful in keeping people dumb and uneducated, there wouldn't even be any consequences for them, same as there haven't been any consequences for them for all the other bs they have pulled until now.