alt Hacker NewsFor me it’s just become…incredibly boring.
There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply.
Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.
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Are you suggesting AI can understand things deeply?
LLM's are fast at applying information, but thinking deeply, they do not.
I love LLM's, because now I can focus more on the creative and thinking deep aspect, and leave most of the typing and stack overflow browsing to the LLM.
"But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..,"
- Write a new top 40 song no talent required
- Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required
- Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required.
AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it!
That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.
I find comments like yours very strange.
> do the hard things for you
The only people advocating for that are the same kind of people which were pitching the cloud as a solution for your hosting needs.
Ime the sweet spot for development with LLMs is to figure out what you need to do and then do that through AI. Yes, it'll still make some decisions there, but did you really get satisfaction from the decisions of eg what to call a class before? At last I didn't.
You can of course try to offload everything to the LLM and not tell it what to do, but only specify what it should enable (spec driven), but at that point youre gambling wherever the output will work and the project becomes unmaintainable - which may be fine too in certain scenarios, that's just pretty rare in a business context
What's your claim to fame for life's work of using your mind?
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I am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc…
I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.