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What was the point to you? What I took away from the article is that AI adds a bunch of complexity that is making it harder, not easier to understand. And I'm
by eterm 1mo ago
What was the point to you? What I took away from the article is that AI adds a bunch of complexity that is making it harder, not easier to understand.
And I'm saying that is true, but it's also enabling a kind of complexity and ambition in outcomes that might be a worthwhile trade-off.
In the same way we accept that cars are no longer something that a mechanic can understand and repair without a laptop, because we trade off the repairability and understanding for better mileage or safer handling.
Either I misunderstood the article, or people are misunderstanding my point, because I'm genuinely confused by being called a bot.
- exe34 1mo agoIt's useful to you. I'd say take the win and let the haters quibble. I'm good enough at coding that I can use it as part of my day job, but I hate coding for the sake of coding. For me coding is a tool for solving problems, and now AI can sometimes help me solve problems I might not have had the motivation to persue. My scale is usually "a small application that helps me do X", not "I develop photoshop singlehandedly".
- RugnirViking 1mo agoabsolubtely. Worth noting though that a large number of people here literally do develop photoshop, or similar apps of similar complexity. The fact they aren't doing it singlehanded makes it way harder, not easier. This is a central counterintuitive finding of most thinking about software development
- exe34 1mo ago> The fact they aren't doing it singlehanded makes it way harder, not easier. As N->large, fraction of time spent coordinating approaches infinity.