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This is true in many industries. Try to build a house without tools.
by p1esk 6mo ago
This is true in many industries. Try to build a house without tools.
- philipallstar 6mo agoThat's why AI isn't really a tool here. You can buy a new drill. If you replace all your house builders with a house factory then you're utterly reliant on the company that makes the factory.
- gonzalohm 6mo agoOr you can code without AI you know? If the company that makes the factory goes down you can fall back to the previous method.
- recursive 6mo agoThe claim is that some people have deskilled so rapidly that they actually can't. Or maybe they're new and never learned the old way.
- Aurornis 6mo agoAI coding assistants haven’t been available for very long. If someone forgot how to write code manually already then they have bigger problems. I don’t think the house factory analogy makes sense for multiple reasons. I subscribe to multiple LLM providers and switch between them all day. I could sign up for a dozen more to provide GLM 5.1 if I wanted to as well. I can even run lesser models locally on my machine. This is nothing like a single factory because I can switch to a new provider in minutes with a credit card.
- Sharlin 6mo agoYeah, completely analogous. Physical tools aren't subscription-based and prone to outages. Except when they are, but that's – luckily – still something that people feel strongly negative about. And if my IDE or compiler (or computer!) stopped working because it requires a connection to the mothership I'd be livid. But I guess the cloud-everything, subscription-everything model has successfully made people accept an objectively worse world.