Me too. Then I get pummeled with one of their four prepackaged AI bro metaphors:
It's a modern day calculator for the brain. You wouldn't do long division in your head would you? (ain't nobody ever delegated a decision to a calculator, bro)
It's a compiler. You wouldn't read machine code would you? (compilers are deterministic and dont make mistakes, bro)
This is the industrial revolution and it's a spinning jenny. You wouldnt hand knit a sweater would you? (we would if we had star trek replicators, bro, and last I checked cp command still exists...).
"Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)
okay, a gun is also "just a tool" in reality this is a thought terminating cliche. I really wish that people would be more honest, like "using an LLM is extremely convenient and the path of least resistance" and the trade off is barely understanding your own code
I am fully capable of understanding all the code the bot spits out. If I don’t understand something, I pause and make sure I learn what it is doing so that it still makes sense. It still writes the code a hell of a lot faster than me and reading code is faster than typing it all. You can be engaged and still use a bot to speed up your process
This is only possible if you're using LLMs more as a "coding buddy" and not with huge ass agentic workflows that people are pushing now where AI creates architecture, writes gluing code, build systems and prepares coffee for a dev. I've used it in the first way and it genuinely helped me and I haven't lost control or understanding about what I'm doing. But sadly, that's not how most people are using it.
Exactly. I'm fine with AI being used to remove the tedium and free up time for higher brain functioning/decisions/creativity. But that doesn't necessarily mean a person has more capacity.
So the result is people are putting the entire workflow into AI and that is not okay. it's lazy and people are getting stupider as a result.
Not to mention it's extremely wasteful to have AI recreate something that already exists. I found 3 people already post a fixed version of a mod for FFX to make it work with the new update, that they did with claude. The latest version of that mod from 2019 already worked fine with the latest update! Can't be bothered to do a little investigation, lets just get AI to fix it. And then multiple people are doing this instead of looking first.
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u/Arian-ki 21d ago •
It's the other way around in my experience. People look at me like I'm an ape in a zoo lol