What if AI in the long run makes us slower and less effective. As someone who is one of the folks supercharged by these tools, I could see it.
replyI think people are underestimating the level of experience and knowledge that’s required to prompt LLM’s. Not in the micro sense but in the macro. It seems so easy because it feels easy. But if you don’t have deep understanding of the domain, it will just feel impossible. The person next to you with domain experience will say “it’s so easy, look at This simple sentence I typed in”. And be like “it’s just a skill issue, why is everyone struggling so much” and not understand the years of accumulated wisdom or innate talent it took to type that simple sentence.
AI makes the easy things easy and the hard things harder, and more omnipresent.
My experience is AI helping me unload things I am not built for. It allows me to be creative with less drag. Not everyone aims to be useless human automaton or useless human thesaurus. It allows me to exercise my intelligence freely.
replyWe’re kind of saying the same thing. But If you only learn LLMs for work, and then you only do the work assigned with the LLM and you don’t see it as an opportunity to leverage creativity and curiosity, you won’t be adding value to the process and someone else will take your job.
replyDo you have any more platitudes to add so I can fill my dismissive HN comment bingo card?
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