[smaudet]

This is why I have yet to use AI, and will probably never.

It's either taking away the most important (or rewarding) thing I need to do (think) and just causing me more work, or it has replaced me.

AI. Is. Not. Useful.

[dangus]

If you have yet to use it then you have no idea if it’s useful.

We can agree all day long about the pitfalls of the technology, but you’ve never used it so you don’t know if it’s causing you more work or replacing you.

[visarga]

Everyone is so fixated on the output as the commodity, whether it’s a blog post or a piece of code, that they fail to see the interaction itself as the locus of value. You can still do your rewarding work in a chat session, it can force you to think, challenge your ideas, and if you introduce your own spices into the soup it won't taste like slop. I like to explain my ideas until the LLM "gets it" and then ask it to "formalize" them in a nice piece of text, which I consume later as a meditation to deepen my thinking. I can't stand passive media anymore, need to be able to push back to feel satisfied, but this is only possible on forums and in AI chats.

[whattheheckheck]

If you have never used it how can you say it's not useful

[monerozcash]

>This is why I have yet to use AI, and will probably never.

>AI. Is. Not. Useful.

Why waste time writing things like this? What's the point?

[stavros]

It's to give others a sense of how many people can hold a completely indefensible opinion based purely on feels.

[rubidium]

This is the attitude of someone who uses hand tools when power tools are available. Yes you loose the personal touch but also loose the potential efficiency. Still need to measure twice and cut once though.

[wtetzner]

I don't think this analogy really works. A power tool would be a programming language with a better set of abstractions, or a good library that solves a hard problem.

AI is like delegating to a junior programmer that never learns or gets better.

[js8]

I don't like your analogy because there are good reasons for amateurs not to use the power tools (for real-world crafting). They are expensive and you can hurt yourself easier. This is very unlike using AI to help you build something faster.

[bentaber]

Loose vs lose. Ask the llm