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> The advantages of steam over sails were clear to everyone They were most certainly not! Which is why you had a solid 60+ years of sail+steam ships. And even
by ethbr1 1y ago
> The advantages of steam over sails were clear to everyone
They were most certainly not! Which is why you had a solid 60+ years of sail+steam ships. And even longer for cargo! [0]
Parent picked a great metaphor for AI adoption: superior in some areas, inferior in others, with the balance changing with technological advancement.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Western https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Western https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sirius_(1837) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sirius_(1837) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ap0dn/when_did_navies_begin_to_phase_out_sailingonly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ap0dn/when_...
- skydhash 1y ago> superior in some areas, inferior in others, with the balance changing with technological advancement. So what are the areas that AI are superior to traditional programming? If your answer is suggestion, then refinement with traditional tooling, then it's just a workflow addon like contextual help, google search, and github code search. And I prefer the others because they are more reliable. We have six major phases in the software development lifecycle: 1) Planning, 2) Analysis, 3) Design, 4) Implementation, 5) Testing, 6) Maintenance. I failed to see how LLM assistance is objectively better even in part than not having it at all. Everything I've read is mostly anecdote where the root cause is inexperience and lack of knowledge.