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Patterns i keep seeing: Once you get the dopamine hit of having an ai assistant do something in the real world it becomes an hammer you want to use on everythi
by kandros 7mo ago
Patterns i keep seeing:
Once you get the dopamine hit of having an ai assistant do something in the real world it becomes an hammer you want to use on everything
Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them
- huijzer 7mo agoIsn’t that a general engineering problem?
- cluckindan 7mo agoEngineering is the process of planning and implementing the simplest thing that works within given constraints. There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.
- Xirdus 7mo agoIf engineering is about implementing the simplest thing then why do we call implementing the most complicated thing overengineering and not underengineering?
- skeledrew 7mo agoSounds like it's time for the "engineering" definition to get a modern update.
- ithkuil 7mo agoThere is "engineering, the discipline", "engineering, the process", "engineering, the vocation, the career path, the learning process" (and many more). Each hat an engineer wears (based on age and context (has its peculiar aspects which might appear to be contradictory with other phases and not all people walked and thrived through all the phases.
- ethbr1 7mo ago> There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here. That's because most AI use is reverse engineering! Resolving static into a valid problem through the sheer force of squinting at it long enough!
- throwaway6977 7mo agoSounds similar to buying a 3D printer hehe
- big-and-small 7mo ago> Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them Generic problem of any Linux newbie. You get good at solving problems and it's so enjoyable so you end up creating more of them.
- yk 7mo agoKinda like learning bash. The most annoying time was when I figured out how to send myself SMS via bash script.
- Skidaddle 7mo agoWow, this definitely describes my obsession with AI over the past year, always hunting for problems to solve with it.
- scotty79 7mo agoThis sounds similar to what you feel when learning to program for the first time.
- NathanOsullivan 7mo agoIMO it is 100% this - these AI tools are letting anyone solve problems that were previously in the domain of programmers.
- NuclearPM 7mo agoAn ‘ammer.
- torginus 7mo agoI think despite how much tech keeps getting hyped, the average person didn't have a 'technology' watershed moment in the past decade or more, so they're taking what they can get.