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[–] 12 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

… If you are a competent developer, he said, an LLM makes a great tool, but only after that effort has been put in to set it up. He resisted suggestions to post his LLM-training materials, saying that each developer needs to go through that process separately.

This is the vibe-code-two-step. "AI" is useful because it helps inexperienced users to code. But you also have to be an expert to use it properly.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    AI is useful when you can put it to a task and validate the result.

    For many tasks that’s visually seeing a button you can click.

    For other tasks you need to be an expert to get value from it and really understand.

    If you provide tools and context, you get a lot better results. For most of my core uses I’ve built decent tooling, but I wouldn’t want to share or be responsible for maintaining that for everyone else.

    I genuinely don’t think it’s useful for learning unless used like stack overflow, but it’s not designed or trained to do that, it’s trained to take the drivers seat regardless of instructions.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

    Same thing could be said about a fishing pole. Or car, or rifle, or a bicycle.

    It helps inexperienced users to catch fish.... But with some knowledge and experience can get more out of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago* (6 children)

    Not the same at all. You don't have to be a gunsmith to kill someone with a gun. You do have to be a knowledgeable engineer to produce anything that isn't slop with "AI".

    A MUCH better analogy is construction. Do you want a bunch of teenagers and Main Character Syndrome dipshits who cannot even read blueprints nor understand regulations and building codes let alone know them, to build your house? Nono, it's OK! They have nail guns and modern lumber, they don't need to know all that!

    Sure you can get a shed or even a small house out of that, but you're never going to get safe, modern, multistory construction like that...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (4 children)

    There's no such thing as 'just a tool', especially if that tool is accelerating climate change when we're already on the knife's edge of irreversible domino effects.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

    Sounds like y'all are afraid, just like the HVAC guys and the mini splits.

    Also sounds like that writer needs to learn to use a fork.

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  • [–] 0 points 19 minutes ago (2 children)

    You don't think climate change is a massive threat to our habitable biosphere?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 minutes ago (1 child)

    Yep. That's clearly what I'm saying./s

    Now I can see why you thought that article was a rebuttal though.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 minutes ago*

    Your response to my comment mentioning that AI's contributions to climate change were equivalent to HVAC workers being afraid of heatpumps.

    If you think climate change is an impending global disaster, do you think building giant data centers that require extremely polluting on-site power generators is not a particularly bad idea, and should factor in heavily on how this technology is used or promoted?

    It seems like most users and advocates of LLMs find the idea of just limiting its use to just locally hosted models to avoid the majority of the negative externalities to be unthinkable.

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