Tony Arnold

The bit that absolutely blows my mind in the narrative and responses to coding assistants: when did all of you become so unsure of your own skill and ability? Why are you letting other people tell you what you can, cannot, should or should not do with *anything*?

Stop treating the person with an undiagnosed gambling addiction parading as AI worship as a reputable source.

And the person who refuses to even engage with the technology.

Go work it out for yourself! Be curious! 🍃

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Show threadHelge HeßFeb 27
@tonyarnold It’s kinda the opposite of gambling, it’s advanced statistics!
Show threadTony ArnoldFeb 27
@helge sure it is. Pull the lever!
Show threadRandy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️Feb 27

@tonyarnold idk, I bite my tongue a lot in these conversations. But I find them genuinely very helpful and an often times a major productivity enhancer. Other times more hassle than just doing it myself.

I sometimes find them doing something that gets me super excited and naturally I think people want to share their excitement.

Then I see people on here telling me how it’s all a hype scam, yada yada zero value, etc. and it seems pretty natural to want to defend your excitement.

Show threadRandy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️Feb 27
@tonyarnold I truly couldn't care less if other people want to use a tool. But microblogging seems to create an environment where people feel compelled to shit on people's genuine excitement. Which is sad, imo.
Show threadTony ArnoldFeb 27

@me1000 this community here on Mastodon definitely falls more toward the "don't want it" side of the argument, but equally, some of the absolute hype drivel coming out of people's posts needs a "you fr bro?" response.

Personally, I think this'll all balance out to a new "normal" sometime soon.

Show threadTony ArnoldFeb 27

@me1000 I have the same experience, but I have incredibly mixed feelings about sharing things either way when I find them because the extremes are *so extreme*.

That said, there's a huge difference between sharing something cool and useful that you've found and decrying the end of the industry because the CEO of a company said it was true.

I found this interview hit all the right notes based on what I've experienced: https://tonyarnold.com/posts/if-it-could-just-be-treated-as-a-normal-technology

If it could just be treated as a normal technology - Tony Arnold

[YouTube embed] I really enjoyed this interview between Anil Dash and Charlie Warzel about the AI panic cycle: “I'd say as succinctly as possible, the majority of people in tech...

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Show threadRandy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️Feb 27
@tonyarnold Yeah, that's fair. Seems like the "influencer economy" is more to blame here. r/LinkedInLunatics (before trump2.0 made most of those posts political) used to is full of this stuff too... normal people overhyping some mundane shit in their job to get likes and shares.
Show threadTony ArnoldFeb 27
@me1000 again, it's a problem adjacent to actual use of LLMs in useful contexts. The poor fucking tech won't ever get a measured response or assessment in any context.
Show threadColin CornabyFeb 27

@tonyarnold In my career I've always picked the jobs where I know I'm going to be one of the dumber people in the room, at least to start with. I think thats one reason LLMs do not really scare me. Watching something write code that I don't know how to write does not cause me ego death, make me decide I can no longer write code by hand, or make me want to stop learning. If that's the way I operated I would have stopped a long time ago.

I'm also surprised by the amount of hand wringing here.

Show threadRob Amos (Bok)Feb 27
@tonyarnold and always remember - when the coding agent asks you for your credit card details you should say no. No matter how many times it begs.