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emmowo

@ emmowo @lemmy.world

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original account was u/emmowo_dev. Hopefully was finally deleted by the time you're reading this?

reddit's algorithm didn't show anything allat meaningful after a while (and has somehow managed to put my account status in purgatory instead of letting me fully delete it.) soo... yeah.

  • What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?

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  • I can understand this viewpoint (and it's similar to the first point), and I do agree that there is a push to defer things to AI. But from my limited experience, it's like a crutch for other issues that force it to be used by very talented people who otherwise want to get things done properly to save headaches later.

    My experience was in the kind of place you would really not want AI to screw you over in, but there was also a very tight timeline to get things done, so I think they ended up just trusting AI to a pretty frightening extent with (iirc) some buildroot stuff that got some people a bit vocal. I think even I used an AI overview once because I just really wanted to be done with a demo.

    It was over a year ago though so I don't really remember what ultimately came of the AI use, but there are 100% situations where this becomes the only option, although I personally will avoid AI unless I'm realistically out of any other option not to. And for that reason I've fallen more out of favour with CS since I enjoy the journey and all the little judgements you make more than the outcome.

  • What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?

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  • Computer science, and quite scarily, a bit of medicine?

    Pharmacists are gonna have to review even more slop now with this scope creep smh /j

  • What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?

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  • AI/LLMs replace cognitive work while the outcome is not guaranteed.

    Calculators... are devices designed to produce deterministic results that can be proven (and yes, with a seed AI is technically deterministic, but that doesn't make it easily provable) as accurate very easily. If you removed calculators from a task, either the result would be completely the same, or it would be worse due to error introduced by something unpredictable.

    past like really, really early education, I don't really see a point to go without a calculator since it uses up so much time for little gain.

  • What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?

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  • I mean you probably could do a decent range of web apps in a day as a minimum viable product, if you already have a solid plan ready. But that's kind of the thing with AI.

    AI... really seems to just make derivative stuff. I tried asking it to replicate one of my terminal text editors (via a description of it), and it ended up making... essentially a 1:1 rip off of different editor but with more comments. I have a feeling that the massive amount of training data is what makes it seem like it can write lots of applicable code, while it's still suffering from quite literally being just a larger version of this half-decade old Google Translate update under the hood.

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    What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?