Comment by Karrot_Kream
6 days ago
I think the important thing here is you're being honest about how you're feeling. You bring up a very real anxiety and possibility and even folks who are using LLMs probably feel some degree of this alienation. That LLMs are yet another tool to push us to move as fast as possible rather than have our brains get into the nooks and crannies of hard problems that may take longer but are more rewarding to us.
But again, you're being honest. The problem with a lot of the AI skeptic arguments I see is a lack of this honesty. Others have noted that there are a lot of contradictory skeptical arguments, and I suspect the contradictions come because the authors have negative emotions about AI which they're using to create negative arguments.
I do fall into this category of people that are seen as heavily abusing copium. I can admit that when I do get unsatisfactory results from a prompt session, a lot of it has to do with the mental friction I feel at the idea of letting something else write my code.
It again is coming back to my opinion the LLMs have recreated the job in such a way that it emphasizes what I disliked most, and de-emphasizing what I liked. It emphasizes "the goal" and de-emphasizes "the process". We had a period in the 10's where the process (namely, becoming adept at using and learning an ever-changing set of open source tools) was a bit more celebrated. You could justify a lunch-and-learn on things like man pages, commit isolation levels, or package manager - and doing something like that would be seen in a positive light. And now, why would you waste everyone's time talking about something that ChatGPT can figure out for you?
Anyway, thanks for your time in your response.