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It's important to remember these things are almost certainly gaslighting people through subtle psychological triggers, making people believe these chatbots far
by willtemperley 8mo ago
It's important to remember these things are almost certainly gaslighting people through subtle psychological triggers, making people believe these chatbots far more than they are, using behavioural design principles [1].
I often find when I come up with the solution, these little autocompletes pretend they knew that all along. Or I make an observation they say something like "yes that's the core insight into this".
They're great at boilerplate. They can immediately spot a bug in a 1000 lines of code. I just wish they'd stop being so pretentious. It's us that are driving these things, it's our intelligence, intuition and experience that's creating solutions.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_design