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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 Svante on 2024-11-22 at 00:07

@freddy @sunfish No, I think that is missing the point completely.

LLMs (no, it's not AI) aren't making the puzzle simple. They don't help you understand the problem, they don't further understanding of similar problems, and that way, their use prevents simplification.

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Written by David Megginson on 2024-11-22 at 18:43

@Ardubal And to further your point, if we don't understand the problem we can't evaluate whether LLMs are giving us a proper solution or one of their frequent plausible-sounding-but-wrong ones.

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