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mikert89today at 2:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

AI gives more leverage to exceptional people, its an amplifier not an extender


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happytoexplaintoday at 2:31 PM

Right, it's a multiplier only if we define bad engineers as negative numbers, and "bad" as "most".

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b800htoday at 3:19 PM

There was an old truism of "acid fascism" that went like this: "LSD makes smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows". This is like that.

onesandofgraintoday at 2:30 PM

Maybe

apitoday at 2:35 PM

That is true of all tools. AI is a tool. A tool provides leverage. It does not make a bad craftsperson good.

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