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Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the auto

Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the automobile.

imiric 4y ago
I think that time will come, but we'll have self-hosted options before employers start discriminating based on performance with or without AI tools. So I'm not too worried about it.
re-thc 4y ago
Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). At the moment GPT isn't. Well I hope... I've definitely seen teams and codebases with worse output than GPT so...
- dharmab 4y ago
  > Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). The automobile was invented in 1885, but didn't replace the horse until the 1910s.
  - re-thc 4y ago
    For the same reasons or different 1s? Could be cost, accessibility and others.
    - dharmab 4y ago
      Largely because of infrastructure. You could get animal feed in places you couldn't get gasoline and oil. And horses don't need smooth roads.
precompute 4y ago
That won't happen, you can't expect to be "left behind" by a tool that's this easy to use. The big downsides of using a LLM will show up long-term, people will be chained to them and won't be able to do simple, trivial things on their own.
- throwaway675309 4y ago
  Most people can't change their own oil, replace radiator fluid, or know the difference between a hubcap and a distributor cap. And yet life seemingly goes on...
  - precompute 4y ago
    Sure, but they can read, synthesize information, understand things without it being spoonfed to them. Or at least a certain slice of the population can. But when that slice gets a really simplified interface they're going to be chained to it hopelessly. The day when people need a LLM / ""AI"" to translate real life for them into their personal vocabulary isn't far off. It won't signal the start of some enlightened age, instead, it'll be the end of literacy. These systems feed on the user, and then it gets recursive.

Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the automobile.

imiric 4y ago

I think that time will come, but we'll have self-hosted options before employers start discriminating based on performance with or without AI tools. So I'm not too worried about it.

re-thc 4y ago

Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). At the moment GPT isn't. Well I hope... I've definitely seen teams and codebases with worse output than GPT so...

dharmab 4y ago
> Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). The automobile was invented in 1885, but didn't replace the horse until the 1910s.
- re-thc 4y ago
  For the same reasons or different 1s? Could be cost, accessibility and others.
  - dharmab 4y ago
    Largely because of infrastructure. You could get animal feed in places you couldn't get gasoline and oil. And horses don't need smooth roads.

precompute 4y ago

That won't happen, you can't expect to be "left behind" by a tool that's this easy to use. The big downsides of using a LLM will show up long-term, people will be chained to them and won't be able to do simple, trivial things on their own.

throwaway675309 4y ago
Most people can't change their own oil, replace radiator fluid, or know the difference between a hubcap and a distributor cap. And yet life seemingly goes on...
- precompute 4y ago
  Sure, but they can read, synthesize information, understand things without it being spoonfed to them. Or at least a certain slice of the population can. But when that slice gets a really simplified interface they're going to be chained to it hopelessly. The day when people need a LLM / ""AI"" to translate real life for them into their personal vocabulary isn't far off. It won't signal the start of some enlightened age, instead, it'll be the end of literacy. These systems feed on the user, and then it gets recursive.