I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.
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I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.
I'm not even curious about it.
It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.
It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.
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It's not just about how the story of how AI will make us all so much more "productive" that we'll all have much more free time, which has been told many times in modern history and has never been broadly true.
It is all that.
And.
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On a personal level.
I got curious about computers because they are things I'm able to be curious about. That's it. That's the spark. I can explore them and learn how they work.
Computers are hard sometimes. Sometimes we can figure out ways to make them easier. But if we instead automate doing hard things, using AI to make doing hard things less effort, it doesn't lead to a place I'm excited about.
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@sunfish wait, is this essentially "I like doing hard puzzles. Of course I don’t want to make them simple"?!
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firebreathingduckreplied to Frederik Braun � last edited by
My son is a CS student, and he said that most of his classmates use AI to finish assignments. He doesn't, because he wants to understand what's happening.
I wouldn't be surprised if he's lying to me, not because he has a history of lying but because, frankly, if ChatGPT existed when I took programming courses 30 years ago I would have used it.
But if he's telling the truth, I expect him to run circles around most other engineers with similar experience within years.
