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An inefficient computer you can use is more productive than an efficient computer you can't use. Most people can't use mice or keyboards with speed, touchscree
by Dalewyn 2y ago
An inefficient computer you can use is more productive than an efficient computer you can't use.
Most people can't use mice or keyboards with speed, touchscreens are marginally better except all the "gestures" are unnatural as hell, and programming is pig latin.
Mice and keyboards and programming languages and all the esoteric ways of communicating with computers came about simply because we couldn't just talk Human to them. Democratizing access to computers is a very good and very productive thing.
- skydhash 2y agoThat's the thing. You don't communicate with computers. You use them. You have a task to do that the computer have been programmed for and what you want is to get the parameters of that tasks to the computer. And you learn how to use the computer because the tasks is worth it, just like you learn how to play a game because you enjoy the time doing it. The task supersedes the tool. Generative AI can be thought as an interface to the tool, but it's been proven that they are unreliable. And as the article outlines, if it can get to 70% of the task, but you don't have the knowledge requires to complete it, that's pretty much the same as 0%. And if you have the knowledge, more often than not you realize that it just go faster on a zigzag instead of the straight route you would have taken with more conventional tools.