alt Hacker NewsAsinine argument. Are you outsourcing your thinking to the compiler because it gives you warnings, instead of getting an error two hours into your punch card programs's runtime?
People have done this work by hand for years and years, and now when they've been using LLMs to do it 5x faster for a couple of years, suddenly they'd be unable to work the traditional way? Please
> My car broke down and now I'm late for work
> Well you shouldn't have outsourced your mobility to a machine
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rglullis • today at 11:25 AM
My compiler does not require billions of dollars of opearational infrastructure to work, except for the electrical grid.
And even in the case of outage, I can keep my computer running on a battery or a backup generator.
> People have done this work by hand for years and years, and now when they've been using LLMs to do it 5x faster for a couple of years, suddenly they'd be unable to work the traditional way?
Yes. Not completely unable all at once, but they certainly get worse at it fast.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1...
Losing skills due to over-reliance on technology is not a new phenomenon and not exclusive to LLM use, but they of course exacerbate it by so pervasively touching so many areas.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gps-weakens-m...