alt Hacker NewsOf course its fun. Making slop _is_ very fun. Its a low-effort dopamine-driven way of producing things. Learning is uncomfortable. Improving things using only your braincells can be very difficult and time consuming.
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simonw • last Sunday at 3:57 PM
The rate at which I'm learning new skills has accelerated thanks to LLMs.
Not learning anything while you use them is a choice. You can choose differently!
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csallen • last Sunday at 4:07 PM
The OP is not talking about making slop, he's talking about using AI to write good code.
I have learned more - not just about my daily driver languages, but about other languages I wouldn't have even cracked the seal on, as well as layers of hardware and maker skills - in the past two years than I did in the 30 years leading up to them.
I truly don't understand how anyone creative wouldn't find their productivity soar using these tools. If computers are bicycles for the mind, LLMs are powered exoskeletons with neural-controlled turret cannons.