I can use AI for coding after decades of coding. I can't use it for theoretical physics because I can't evaluate the responses.
That is what will happen though to future generations: they won't be able to use it for anything because none of them will have the "decades of coding" experience that you have had the privelege to have without AI.
> I’m also surprised to see that even Terrence Tao seems to use it in a way that resembles, in progression, how I use llms in my area of expertise
I've mostly seen people trying to oneshot a result, while I'll quickly experienced that going through steps/discovery was more effective and more satisfying, since you can always steer it back in the right direction; while oneshotting is hit (and it kind feel like magic) or miss (and you'll have to rework your prompt).
It is still ultimately Terence that is steering things.
What is crazy to me is how few of other people's conversations like this I have actually read.
Tao is really great for this because the anti-AI crowd can't really chime in and take the thread in a pointless direction. It is hard to think of another human alive who can carry the weight of unassailable authority in the same way.