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> They'll judge us the way we judge people who manually calculated ledgers before spreadsheets existed. Impressive dedication to craft, but ultimately unnecessa
by ben_w 1y ago
> They'll judge us the way we judge people who manually calculated ledgers before spreadsheets existed. Impressive dedication to craft, but ultimately unnecessary effort spent on problems that got solved by better tools.
One of my dad's anecdotes was of someone who was very proud of the fact that they could multiply numbers with a slide rule faster than any of the then-newfangled electronic hand calculators.
A lot of stuff changed between him being born in 1939 and when he took early retirement in the late 90s.
Kinda weird that it's possible he might be one of the first generation programmers and I might be one of the last.
Such rapid change.
- watwut 1y ago> One of my dad's anecdotes was of someone who was very proud of the fact that they could multiply numbers with a slide rule faster than any of the then-newfangled electronic hand calculators. I am 100% willing to admin that the guy was cool and had good reason to be proud about that.
- germandiago 1y agoWe are not at that point. There is a lot to improve in terms of contrxt and specialization. I really think AI is tremendously over-hyped and AGI is just selling and making money for the people who believe it is even possible. These tools are probabilistic parrots and the proof is that when you give them something for which not much documentation exist they start to hallucinate a lot.