Eugen RochkoI see generative AI on the web the same way I see forever chemicals in the real world. The effects may not be immediately apparent but they are poisoning mankind. Those who acquired knowledge and skills in the before era will be fine, but newer generations won't have the same reference points to tell reality from fiction. They will search for "baby peacock" on Google and have no reason to believe the actual birds look any different to what they're shown. I find that sad somehow.
Kwink@Gargron I recently asked someone to teach me how to write code. He taught me some basic terms and then told me to ask Claude AI to write me whatever code I need.
🅱🅻🆄🅴🅱️He is not exactly wrong...
You learn by doing and you build recipes as you go that you can reuse later. While AI won't get you everywhere, it is one use of generative language models that is actually... Pretty good usually.
And when it breaks down you hit the books. Then years later you are 'good' at coding.
HowardNot sure I agree with this. There is buillding evidence that reliance on AI coding tools inhibits critical thinking and long term knowledge.
AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.