brandonmenc
brandonmenc on Hacker News
Because I’ll know how much I can slack off.
> I would still resist because an increase in my output would not correlate to an increase in my salary
It will correlate to you still having a job.
"Resisting" is like refusing to use a shovel at your ditch-digging job.
You can still write a program even though AI can do it.
You can still build a table from scratch even though you can buy one from Ikea.
etc etc
> At every turn it seems like a lot of intellectual pursuits are just being voided by this technology.
If the goal was to show off your accomplishments on social media, sure.
Sorry, but you’re crazy.
There is absolutely no way I can ever go back to vanilla web search vs Gemini.
The XT was significantly more powerful than the Apple II in every way except color depth.
Just about every PC game in 1989 ran on an XT with CGA.
And yet, tons of comments on Threads from women saying she's been gaslit or even that the husband must have threatened her with violence and forced her to write this.
You can't win with these people.
I recently tried to encourage my smart, technical, but not-programmer friend to build an app using LLMs and he was just like, "I still have no idea where to even start."
People talk a lot about how "real programmers" used to have to clean up or actually deploy everyone's half-baked MS Access app, and that sort of thing will probably still be the case for a while.
Hilarious, because accounting for this stuff is drilled into your head when you study the softer sciences (like psychology) even as an undergrad.
Science fiction is entertainment.
There's no way to like, "misread" it.
Sorry, but you need to have at least some info about the humans involved before I would even consider using this.
The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare minimum of hyperlinking.
Like, yeah, no duh - I can use Google.
Not a single hyperlink in that article. Infuriating.
Call me when "infinite scroll" causes cancer.
How do you know they're not learning by using an LLM?
You think just because they built something with an LLM they won't ever "view source" on the output?
Very presumptuous.
re: "taste" - whatever that even means here - you could say the same thing about any of the thousands of Bootstrap or Tailwind or whatever CRUD apps made over the years.
They're 13.
When we were using Hypercard or BASIC to make dumb little programs, we weren't learning any of that stuff either, really.
Making apps is so complicated now that without a little bit of help from LLMs, most kids would probably just give up.
Heck, lots of professional software developers are using LLMs to get over that hump on their side projects for the very same reason.
It's hard to even get started nowadays, and LLMs lower the barrier of entry. This is a good thing.
EDIT: Also, maybe this kid doesn't dream of being a programmer? And they just want an app that solves their immediate problem? Everyone here is being unnecessarily harsh. I hope none of you have kids.
Yeah, and I'm certainly not paying $20 a month - indefinitely - for it.
Too bad they had a falling out when Dvorak questioned the logic of hiring Vivek Kundra (remember him? of course not!) as the nation's first CIO.
Not really.
My parents married in 1972 at age 18. Rust belt. Both worked. While comfortable, we were always worried about money and layoffs.
Friends whose parents didn't do as well as mine or who were single income households fared far worse. Definitely didn't end up with saved "extra" money.
This level of filtering is so granular and bespoke that I'm not surprised no one offers it.
Have an upvote, you old chunk of coal!
Maybe schools should be self-hosting something like Sakai instead.
There is a reasonable middle ground between tossing everyone in the hole and letting petty crime run rampant.
Then we need to make it work their time by bringing back broken windows policing.
After reading these comments, I don't want to hear any of you suggest that kids shouldn't be allowed to have unrestricted access to smartphones or social media ever again.
How did you think this was going to be enforced?
Blanking out is afaik the exact opposite of "mindfulness".
This is almost exactly like Transcendental Meditation, even down the to the length of time of ~20 minutes.