Re:ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the s...
by namaria on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:51AM
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>it's a time for hunting and killing
I ask myself if foregoing the chance to learn under fire and outsourcing it to a corporate tool is extracting the right value from it. Yeah you get the task on hand done. Maybe means money comes in. Trumps everything right? But next time you'll depend on this remote API to hold your hands again. What if it costs 10x as much then, or is now proprietary and unavailable to you?
We're all giving up learning for short term convenience? Is that what makes good engineers?
I ask myself if foregoing the chance to learn under fire and outsourcing it to a corporate tool is extracting the right value from it. Yeah you get the task on hand done. Maybe means money comes in. Trumps everything right? But next time you'll depend on this remote API to hold your hands again. What if it costs 10x as much then, or is now proprietary and unavailable to you?
We're all giving up learning for short term convenience? Is that what makes good engineers?