hperrin2d ago

Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?

https://lemmy.ca/post/62061142

Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average? - Lemmy.ca

Like, every AI generated thing I’ve seen, when viewed from the eyes of someone who actually knows what they’re doing, is at best below average. Maybe some things aren’t quite as bad as the general “AI slop”, but of the things I’m actually experienced in (code and art), I just see so many amateur mistakes in everything AI. Regarding art, AI can make really visually appealing things, but it gets the details wrong. That’s something that a below average artist does. And regarding code, it’s the same thing. Overall, it has the appearance of decent code, but it gets the details wrong, just like a below average dev. (Probably about the level of a high school senior or college freshman.) I’m not super experienced at writing, but I can also tell that it’s not very good at that. The stories it writes just aren’t compelling, but I’m not experienced enough to tell you why. And the same with music. It’s just below average, but I couldn’t tell you why. I’m not trying to sound elitist by saying this, but I’ve noticed people who aren’t very good at these things tend to praise how good the AI is. So, is it just me, or are the big fans of AI just below average at whatever the AI is doing?

Show threadRetail40682d ago
You people are going to get so left behind 🤷‍♂️. The smugness of this post 🤣.
Show threadlichtmetzger1d ago

You people are going to get so left behind

Been hearing that for two years, mate.

Show threadRetail40681d ago
Maybe your not as  observant as you think. It won’t be immediate change and it’ll start by missing promotions and raises.
Show threadlichtmetzger
So you’re saying I will get more promotions by deskilling myself? Yeah, sure, that makes sense…
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Show threadRetail406817h ago

Ahhhhhhhh look at me I’ve lost the ability to read code!!! The AI stole my powers! It’s space jam 3 ai invasion!!!

Here’s a hint for you in life. Very very few employers hire employees for their ability to quickly sort a tree or other highly technical problems. They are hired for their ability to translate business needs into tech while dealing with whatever arbitrary constraints while not being a screeching dick about it. And this only becomes more true as you get more senior roles.

My job as a lead, staff engineer, and eventually director involves far more pull requests, teaching, getting nerds to stop screeching at each other and talking through shit. To ask do we even need to do this work.

I still code better than most of my juniors. I still understand AWS better then them. But I’m not doing 95% of the code.

Show threadlichtmetzger16h ago

Ahhhhhhhh look at me I’ve lost the ability to read code!!!

Pretending that skill atrophy isn’t a real issue doesn’t make it go away. The more a developer outsources his brain to an LLM, the more skills they lose over time. I experienced it first hand, because I wasn’t always so strictly against “AI” and used it extensively for many months. But I noticed that I wasn’t able to solve pretty simple coding tasks after a while anymore, tasks which were second nature to me before. Anyone who mindlessly boosts AI without even taking this into consideration, isn’t a good developer.

I still code better than most of my juniors.

This statement is a nothingburger. You can’t hype yourself up to make yourself more legitimate, anyone can just claim things on the internet. In order to assess if you are truly a good coder, another senior who doesn’t use AI would have to look over your code. The results might surprise you.

I’ll leave it at that, you completely jumped on the hypetrain, you aren’t even interested in a real discussion and my time is too valuable to spend it on such trivialities. I just feel sorry for the juniors working under your management and I hope you’ll not be out of a job when OpenAI, Anthropic and all of the other big “AI” companies eventually go down the drain.