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Written by Dan Gohman on 2024-11-21 at 16:37

I am a programmer in the year 2024 who doesn't use AI.

I'm not even curious about it.

It's not just the mistakes. Hallucinations. Artificial confidence.

It's not just the unconscionable energy use. Laundering and reinforcement of historical biases. Ripoff of creative works. Exploited workers. Scams. Bots. Political propaganda. Mass surveillance to train the beast. And this is just off the top of my head here.

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Written by Dan Gohman on 2024-11-21 at 16:37

It's not just about how the story of how AI will make us all so much more "productive" that we'll all have much more free time, which has been told many times in modern history and has never been broadly true.

It is all that.

And.

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Written by Dan Gohman on 2024-11-21 at 16:55

On a personal level.

I got curious about computers because they are things I'm able to be curious about. That's it. That's the spark. I can explore them and learn how they work.

Computers are hard sometimes. Sometimes we can figure out ways to make them easier. But if we instead automate doing hard things, using AI to make doing hard things less effort, it doesn't lead to a place I'm excited about.

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Written by Frederik Braun � on 2024-11-21 at 16:59

@sunfish wait, is this essentially "I like doing hard puzzles. Of course I don’t want to make them simple"?!

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Written by Dan Gohman on 2024-11-21 at 17:04

@freddy It's not about the hardness of the puzzle. I don't think I'm even that skilled at solving hard puzzles.

I like things like "if-else" constructs. I like how when I see one, I know what it does.

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Written by Dan Kortschak on 2024-11-22 at 08:39

@sunfish I think this partially reflects the sentiment in the Go experiments with AI as a tool for software development: "… differs from many development-focused uses of LLMs by not trying to augment or displace the code writing process at all. After all, writing code is the fun part of writing software. Instead, the idea is to focus on the not-fun parts, like processing incoming issues, matching questions to existing documentation, and so on."

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