AI will divide the best from the rest

Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by bdcravens on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:40AM (#43049478)

I feel like that's people not yet knowing how to use them. With just a little bit of context-setting, they can be force multipliers. I do agree with you that you need the underlying skills. Frequently I use them to do something I've done before, bypassing the time for me to look up syntax, etc.

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Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by getnormality on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:47AM (#43049575)

I've used them for syntax too, and gotten genuine benefit from that. I just don't think it was all that hard before, and the risk that people feel they no longer need to actually understand their tools looms large in my mind.

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Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by bdcravens on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:22PM (#43053190)

Perhaps, but once upon a time you'd either memorize syntax or work with a reference book in front of you. Over time we came to use various syntax completion and introspection tools, as well as Internet references, and overall I'd say we aren't dumber than we were then.

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Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by lm28469 on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:42AM (#43049507)

> they can be force multipliers.

Like phones can be, but give that to an unsupervised 10 years old and it's not a given that the outcome will be a net positive

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Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by bdcravens on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:26PM (#43053226)

That's true of any tool, and is such a general statement that it borders on being a non sequitur.

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Re:AI will divide the best from the rest by lm28469 on Friday February 14, 2025 @05:27PM (#43053792)

Sure, but then again nobody is literally asking for $7t to develop a hammer, a phone or anything really...

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