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No, solving problems yourself is easier than understanding solutions that AI serves to you
by bluefirebrand 1y ago
No, solving problems yourself is easier than understanding solutions that AI serves to you
- malfist 1y agoYeah, but I could just not understand the AI solution and just run with whatever it give me. No effort there. If something doesn't work, I can just tell the AI to fix it. (Not a serious suggestion, but I do see this in the wild a lot)
- bluefirebrand 1y agoYes, I do unfortunately see this in the wild a lot as well Maybe I'm the one who is ultimately a sucker, because I take too much pride in my work to do this But I always thought that the quality of my work and my effort would be tied to my reputation, but I don't think the world works that way unless you are very well known somehow
- eru 1y agoI'm not so sure. An analogy: any idiot can take a calculus class today, but it took Leibniz and Newton to come up with it in the first place. (And even those geniuses didn't do it properly: it took until the likes of Karl Weierstrass and friends to put analysis on a firm footing.)
- sublinear 1y agoAI generated code in all but the most trivial cases is never production ready. In the real world, the resulting code that correctly and efficiently solves a problem ends up being unique enough such that an AI wouldn't learn much even if you fed this result back in. It's just going to average away all the important parts that made it correct. If real world code wasn't so sparse and time consuming to develop it wouldn't be so valuable in the first place. Not to mention the fact that the maintenance is what you really care about and where the real costs are. Application code doesn't stand still.