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Comments are kind of embarrassing how many people seem to derive a sense of identity from not using AI. Before LLMs, I didn’t use them to code. Then there were
by ralusek 11mo ago
Comments are kind of embarrassing how many people seem to derive a sense of identity from not using AI. Before LLMs, I didn’t use them to code. Then there were LLMs, and I used them a little to code. Then they got better at code, and now I use them a little more.
Probably 20% of the code I produce is generated by LLMs, but all of the code I produce at this point is sanity checked by them. They’re insanely useful.
Zero of my identity is tied to how much of the code I write involves AI.
- stingraycharles 11mo agoThe irony is that by asserting how much you don’t identify your identify with AI, you, in turn, identify yourself in a certain way. I’m reminded of that South Park episode with the goths. “I’m so much of a non-conformist I’m going to non-confirm with the non-conformists”. In the end it all doesn’t matter.
- saaaaaam 11mo agoI think you’ve put your finger on it. This isn’t about AI, it’s about the threat to people’s identity presented by AI. For a while now “writing code” has been a high status profession, with a certain amount of impenetrable mystique that “normies” can’t hurdle. AI has the potential to quite quickly shift “writing code” from a high status profession that people respect to commodity that those same normies can access. For people whose identities and self of sense have been bolstered by being a member of that high status group AI is a big threat - not because of the impact on their work, but because of the potential to remove their status, and if their status slips away then they may realise they have nothing much else left. When people feel threatened by new technology they shout loud and proud about how they don’t use it and everything is just fine. Quite often that becomes a new identity. Let them rail and rage against the storm. “Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” The image of Lear “a poor, infatuated, despised old man” seems curiously apt here.
- BrouteMinou 11mo agoThe thief who stole the car is always a little bit more chatty about the stolen car. Who are you trying to convince here?
- german_dong 11mo agoWhen not having Claude feels like you left your phone at home, I'd say no, using AI is very much a part of our identities.