Comment by tyleo

> Observer bias is the tendency of observers to not see what is there, but instead to see what they expect or want to see.

Unfortunately, people enjoying a thing and thinking that it works well doesn't actually mean much on its own.

But, more than that I suspect that AI is making more people realize that they don't need to write everything themselves, but they never needed to to begin with, and they'd be better off to do the code reuse thing in a different way.

I'm not sure that's a convincing argument given that crypto heads haven't just been enthusiastically chatting about the possibilities in the abstract. They do an awful lot of that, see Web3, but they have been using crypto.

Even in 2012 bitcoin could very concretely be used to order drugs. Many people have used it to transact and preserve value in hostile economic environments. Etc etc. Ridiculous comment.

Personally i have still yet to find LLMs useful at all with programming.

People are using divining rods now and enjoying them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing

I don't (use AI tools), I've tried them and found that they got in the way, made things more confusing, and did not get me to a point where the thing I was trying to create was working (let alone working well/safe to send to prod)

I am /hoping/ that AI will improve, to the point that I can use it like Google or Wikipedia (that is, have some trust in what's being produced)

I don't actually know anyone using AI right now. I know one person on Bluesky has found it helpful for prototyping things (and I'm kind of jealous of him because he's found how to get AI to "work" for him).

Oh, I've also seen people pasting AI results into serious discussions to try and prove the experts wrong, but only to discover that the AI has produced flawed responses.