Mastodawn

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@drikanis/116107120926277506

I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.

Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.

If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.

We used to have a bookcase in every software house with tech docs on it and we normalised that being replaced with online docs.

Then Google-fu became important and knowing the right question to form a query around became a good skill for a young dev.

So we got to the point devs developed skills in asking good questions and identifying good answers. The issue is LLM answers don't have peer review like Stack Overflow and get trusted like official docs.