Until a few months ago I was extremely skeptical of AI, thought it was overhyped, etc.
I started using it more and more for work and it changed my mind. It's still overhyped but I now recognize how transformative it is.
It won't replace all intelectual human labor as many claim. It's a useful tool, a companion.
In the 60s/70s, the best programmers were the ones that could memorize more and consult reference manuals faster.
After the 00s, the best programmers are the ones that can google the answers faster.
Now, in the 20s, the best programmers will be the best prompters.
It's important to recognize paradigm shifts. Adapt or die.
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Excellent framing
I’m under-using it, but it has already dramatically improved my productivity.
Do not agree with any of yr decade 'best programmer' characterisations. What you are actually describing is the typical mediocre programmer of each period, and definitely not the best.
Couldn't agree more
For us npobs who know nothing, we now have a shot; I use AI to help me learn how to code
For you dev's, with the correct intention in the prompts, you have 3-5x your work output
Are you replaced? Hell no; not even close.
Is it a boost to your productivity? Absolutely
What is mediocre about using the most efficient tools available at the time?
Just doing that is not the only indicator of quality of course, but that is besides the point.
If you take 2 devs with the same knowledge level and skill, the one that uses the best tool will have an edge and will outpace the other.
The thing that is lost with the adoption of more and more abstracted tools, is a functional grasp of how the complete system functions.
functional programming fixes this
Yep.
You're talking around the issue. The best programmers have the biggest mental caches, at any level.
I see it more as weight lifting. Yes, you can lift more with the help of ai, but there is a tradeoff when the mind begins to atrophy because you let the ai do all the heavy lifting.
If I have to adapt to AI to survive, then I'd rather die. Truth is that the only winner in the AI arms race, is AI itself. This is not the same as the industrial revolution, this is about replacing the human mind and creativity. I don't wanna be part in such a supercilious atrocity. Nope 👎.
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Well, you can see it one way or the other.
Without the opportunity to turn my lyrics into songs, I wouldn't have started writing songs in the first place.
Without the music, the lyrics would be poems at best. And I don't want to write poems.
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A relatively unexplored aspect of generative AI is the impact of AI-generated data on the quality of language models, as the majority of currently used data is (still) human-made. Will be interesting to see how things will turn out once this changes.
