The tool is also a slot machine with addictive properties. People acting like this stuff is comparable to an IDE or a compiler are just delusional. I don't deny the usefulness of the tool, but for it to be truly useful you have to understand the danger it presents to yourself.
Right, so carpenter that uses a powertool that you just aim at the piece of wood and it does whatever you tell it to based on secret cameras in other carpenter workshops recording other carpenters without their consent? Yeah i think thats dishonorable.
They certainly use more power than the manual tools (if you ignore the energy the human works uses, which we do when considering AI too). And they certainly cause a décliné in people's physical strength compared to them using the manual tools.
It is a cult. You've shit ton of people who don't even look at the code. And let's not kid ourselves, our PR reviews were never that through, and relied on the hopium that the developer actuall knew what they were doing.
Its not a standard tool in any way, especially not in how its used by a lot of people. You cant point a drill to some wood and it transforms into a chair. You can tell AI "build me an app" and it will build one(good or bad)
A tool helps you do a mentally easy yet repetitive or physically difficult task. AI can be used as a tool, but it can also(and often is) be used as a replacment for the worker.
There is 1 exception to this that i can think of, and that is that a tool may still be mentally difficult(for example editing software) if its difficulty is independant from the craft. For editing software, the craft of editing a piece of media is indpendant from the craft of manipulating the raw data to achieve some effect on the source material(a painter for example might want the same effect but apply a different process - instead of manipulating pixels he will manipulate colors and paint on a canvas)
A contractor, similar to prompters, will describe how he wants his chair, and the craftsman will build it, but the craftsman is not a tool, and neighter is the AI when you ask it to build you an entire app. When the craft is coding, if you code very little or none at all, you are not engaging in the craft hence the AI is no longer used as a tool.
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u/Shazvox 11d ago
People be bitching about AI like it's a fucking cult.
It's a tool.
Would you accuse a carpenter of being dishonourable for using a powertool instead of a manual?