Comment by surfingdino
2 years ago
Then why not remove this crap (LLMs) from the loop altogether? How did we get from "AI will replace you" to "your new job will be an AIs janitor" in the space of about 12 months?
2 years ago
Then why not remove this crap (LLMs) from the loop altogether? How did we get from "AI will replace you" to "your new job will be an AIs janitor" in the space of about 12 months?
there is nothing wrong with being a janitor. you could also call it "AI editor" instead of you want to insert a job title sounds more prestigious. some people find it easier and more enjoyable to edit a first draft generated by a language model based on instructions than writing that first draft themselves.
I gotta say, Claude is a godsend for building out quick prototypes of ideas, especially when those ideas require domain specific knowledge that you know a little about but aren't specialized in. Which is most interesting programming projects.
Sure, I could do it myself, but it would take more time, each step would have less momentum, and I'd have to think more while I do it. Which, there's a place for that too, of course.
> Sure, I could do it myself, but it would take more time, each step would have less momentum, and I'd have to think more while I do it. Which, there's a place for that too, of course.
You just start faster, but end at the same time. If you really need to understand something there is no LLM shortcut. I spent hours interrogating Claude, in the same time I could have studied from a book and gotten even better grounding.
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>Then why not remove this crap (LLMs) from the loop altogether
Because reading is faster than writing.
Someone could spend a few years or even most of their life writing a book that can be read in a matter of hours days or weeks.
Humans writing have to proofread their own work. Or occasionally even pay someone else to do it.