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Re:You can't pay me to prompt by Leynos on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:37AM (#46743406)
I find some of it interesting. I'm very interested in understanding why others' experience of using genAI is so vastly different to my own.

(For me it's been as transformational a change as discovering I could do my high school homework on a word processor in the 90s when what I suspect was undiagnosed dyspraxia made writing large volumes of text by hand very painful).

I'm also interested in understanding if the envisaged transformation of developers into orchestrators, supervisors, tastemakers and curators is realistic, desirable or possible. And if that is even the correct mental model.

Re:You can't pay me to prompt by stavros on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:57AM (#46743569)
Sure, me too, but most discourse I've seen is just knee-jerk reaction of the form "AI is entirely useless", which is just basically noise.
Re:You can't pay me to prompt by bee_rider on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:17PM (#46745411)
I don’t like “AI is useless” as an argument because

* it is basically invalidated by somebody saying “well I find it useful”

* it is easy to believe it’s on a path toward usefulness

OTOH it is worth keeping in mind that we haven’t seen what a profitable AI company looks like. If nothing else this technology has massive potential for enshittification…

Re:You can't pay me to prompt by stavros on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:35PM (#46745622)
I agree with you entirely. On the other hand, I love that nobody will ever be able to take the current open models away from us.