arclight5d ago

I feel we've reached a point where many if not most of the organizations we rely on are being overrun by toddlers.

We're constantly bring sold the belief that a chatbot is a viable substitute for thinking, skill, and hard work, of expertise and competence.

I've had conversations with people about AI agents and coding, how people want to have made something they've imagined without having to do the work of actually learning, designing and building. It's like a toddler demanding to be allowed to drive the fire truck without knowing how to drive, not being able to reach the pedals, and not knowing anything about fighting fires.

The want to be what they imagine a firefighter is from the perspective of a toddler. They don't know, they don't care, they just want to be in that truck and make the lights and sirens go.

That outlook is fine for a toddler, it's not acceptable for a grown adult drawing a paycheck.

Show threadLuke MacNeil

@arclight this is a very toddler like perspective.

I can build insanely more sophisticated things faster, with better tests, comprehensive documentation, and a better guard railed process than ever before.

For those that already can code and build and architect and document - this is a multiplier of monumental proportions.

Mar 19 at 7:56amWeb
Show threadarclight5d ago
@luke What are the consequences of your code failing?
Show threadLuke MacNeil5d ago
@arclight depends on the project - but I trust the 1200 tests I have the agents running against it more than the 60 I rushed together myself.
Show threadarclight5d ago
I don't care about the tests; I want know what people lose or how they are harmed if the software doesn't work or produces misleading or incorrect results.
Show threadDavid Fetter4d ago
@luke @arclight it's interesting that you should bring madness into the discussion. How do you know you're not subject to it just from interacting with the plagiarizing glazebox? How do you know the thing(s) to which you delegated the work--work you literally cannot understand or check the way you would have if you'd done it yourself--aren't doing things that would be madness if you did them?