alt Hacker NewsEvery word of this seems objectively false. AI is more than capable of handling the details. I have generated countless tools for myself without needing to know or care about the details.
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As long as these tools remain for your personal use there is nothing wrong with that. The moment other people rely on them however, it would become reckless oversight to operate in that way.
I think the author means ecomonically valuable not valuable to you.
Tools? Yes. Reliable foundations? Eh, mostly not. Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I'm not impressed. Not in the least because in order to get a good system you must have a good image of the system in your head. And if AI builds the system, how will you ever get that system in your head?
It doesn't handle anything, he reproduce statistical patterns. If it seems it cares about the details it's because he's been trained to regurgitate stuff. Another thing is being expert in something and being able to prompt the clanker, and those who are, usually underestimate how much their knowledge is steering the machine in the right direction
It’s always tools tho, and AI tools especially. Why not anything else?
Everyone feels like they are now the ceo of their own empire of ai flunkies who do the actual work guided by their above-all-that vision, and they luuuuuuv that.
But useless ceos generate bad output just like useless direct coders.
It's like everyone is adopting the once only-for-the-rich mindset where artisan is actually a derogatory term. Where Micheal Angelo is the same as the cow stall poop shoveler, because they actually do something directly themselves.
The pro argument is always quantity based, yet we never get to see the actual gain in quality. It's always "I'm doing SO MUCH more". Never "I'm doing better, with less effort."
It's also what we see in the wild. There are so many things going on, so many news about "AI". Are things getting better in any meaningful way? Why are we getting so much from "AI" yet things keep getting worse? The only real, objective and verifiable gain has been the stock price of a handful of companies, most of them heavily into infrastructure and manufacturing hardware.
Seems like a pretty clear pattern. There's so much output, but everything is worse. And the only argument we hear for why this is actually a good thing is just how much more output there is. Hmmm