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.
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.
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.
Maybe a better analogy might be a car with an automatic transmission, although that doesn’t capture the pitfalls of AI very well. It could be argued that a good automatic transmission has none of the serious downsides that AI has.
Still, the general idea is sometimes getting stuff faster with less effort more automatically is more important than the “reward” of doing it yourself.
wtetzner|1 month ago
AI is like delegating to a junior programmer that never learns or gets better.
hxugufjfjf|1 month ago
js8|1 month ago
dangus|1 month ago
Maybe a better analogy might be a car with an automatic transmission, although that doesn’t capture the pitfalls of AI very well. It could be argued that a good automatic transmission has none of the serious downsides that AI has.
Still, the general idea is sometimes getting stuff faster with less effort more automatically is more important than the “reward” of doing it yourself.
bentaber|1 month ago
unknown|1 month ago
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