It’s so depressing people so hyped over the instant gratification of AI slop code at the cost of their own thinking and learning.
First, they came for your data and behaviors. Then they pushed custom algorithms to get you hooked on content. And now they want you to offload your thinking, creations, and wonders onto them.
Pick up a damn book, learn something, and go touch some grass. Ugh.
@marioguzman This is something I struggle with. I pride myself as being a very skilled staff+ level engineer. I love using AI tools; they help me work a _ton_ faster because my typing speed is no longer the limit – I can work closer to the speed I think at.
However, I see people who have never written code before almost acting as if they're taking their first hit of coke or something when using these tools. That is not healthy and not sustainable, and not good for users.
@kyleve it’s unsustainable to some degree to everyone. Because eventually even us, more experienced devs, will have to learn the next big framework and we’ll probably be too reliant on AI. Then we’ll just be like a junior dev being addicted to AI because we’ll be doing all new stuff too.
I’m legit afraid of when you’re not learning, your brain isn’t forming new connections or fortifying existing ones.
I don’t want to become a “smooth brain.”
@kyleve I only use it for two main things: doing boring stuff I know how to do and I can also fix myself if it didn’t do it right; like UI constraints in UIKit.
The other thing is, once I think I have an understanding of the part of the system I need to alter or fix, I ask whatever LLM at hand if my understanding is correct.
Mario Guzmán
Kyle 🏳️🌈