Comment by agentultra

I don’t think the argument from such a simple example does much for the authors point.

The bigger risk is skill atrophy.

Proponents say, it doesn’t matter. We shouldn’t have to care about memory allocation or dependencies. The AI system will eventually have all of the information it needs. We just have to tell it what we want.

However, knowing what you want requires knowledge about the subject. If you’re not a security engineer you might not know what funny machines are. If someone finds an exploit using them you’ll have no idea what to ask for.

AI may be useful for some but at the end of the day, knowledge is useful.