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It depends on risk preferences.

Risk seekers should be entrepreneurs.

Risk averse people, probably, should not.

lol what a load of gibberish.

Why do people write such nonsense?

Jobs envisioned the iPad and iPhone. Did he do the physical work? No. But he created direction.

Everyone around him at that time has commented on this. Are you going to claim they’re all lying?

Correct.

LLM’s are the virus of the mind - people think so what? I get my output and move on.

Yeah.. no. You need that thinking capacity to protect yourself. Once that’s gone en-masse, what’s left of the democratic system (not much) will completely collapse. Congrats to legally creating an environment that yields oligarchy.

Altman and his cronies yearn for a swath of people who cannnot think for themselves.

Yup. Unhinged to put it mildly.

People who are liberal artsy at the core but do computer science? Yes.

“ Finding problems that people will pay money to have solved by software is a different entirely more complicated matter ”

Come on you’re taking the piss, surely.

On a serious note it would be great to run an experiment - get 20 people on here claiming 100x productivity, and let’s see what they muster up in 1 month working together.

I’m happy to put money in towards it ;)

Yea but that design part is the most expensive part. The code generation is pretty trivial - the advantage of llm’s is the power to search through pre-trained information spaces - much faster than a human could. Issue is again.. probabilistic. So there’s variance.’

Indeed. Astro turfing posts have a particular smell to them.

I was also like this but I managed to wire my brain to get over the anxiety/fear whatever it was to getting started and it’s worked magically.

And I’m thankful - I’d really hate to rely on something else to get me going…

Yep. Something people overlook is the necessary need to condition oneself to enjoy something painful. Just like going gym and lifting weights.

Without being exposed to this, you’re not gonna be a good problem solver in the long run.

Excellent post!

“I'm also concerned about the second-order effects. Because switching into the often-required deep mental focus is very difficult (borderline painful), I've seen many, many people reach for LLMs in those moments instead, first a little, then entirely. I've watched people copy/paste API docs into Gemini prompts to explain them. I've watched people unable to find syntax errors in code and paste it into ChatGPT to fix it. I'm confident I'm not the only person who's observed this, and it's a little maddening it's not getting more play”

That’s exactly why I stopped using LLM’s. Then people turn around and say “but.. you’ll get left behind.”

Yeah, nah. I value my ability to hold concepts and reason deeply and sit in those painful moments - I’m not letting go of this conditioning that pays dividends over the long term.