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I just used ai to do three things that were a bit outside my skill and comfort zone. I’m pretty sure there are lots of people using it to good effect. Actually

I just used ai to do three things that were a bit outside my skill and comfort zone. I’m pretty sure there are lots of people using it to good effect. Actually two things that were totally outside and one thing that is well within, but would have taken me eight hours and with me directing it took the ai about 12 min. Most software engineers I know use some amount of ai assistance in coding. Pretends is a pretty strong word here. A lot of people actually use it to help them do their work.

tw04 1y ago
You’ve hit the nail on the head of why I think AI is counter productive. In my experience, the place it’s most useful is an area you don’t have expertise in as a sort of bolster to your knowledge. Also in my experience, it tends to be really good at producing outputs that sound extremely convincing to the non-expert that are completely incorrect in detail. And the only way to know if you got a good or bad answer is to be a subject matter expert… which sort of defeats the purpose.
- sudahtigabulan 1y ago
  And, because of how first impressions work, this wrong info is what tends to stay in your memory. Even if you "iterate", and eventually arrive at something that's correct, the thing that sticks is the first one, the one that you paid most attention to before you realized it's wrong.
  - ted_bunny 1y ago
    Not to mention, even if you reject all the nodes of the information it presents as incorrect, it can still smuggle in an ontology that you might forget to examine.