Comment by KronisLV

1 day ago

> Here’s an experiment for you: stop using “AI”. Try it for a day. For a week. For a month.

Sooner or later, this will be akin to asking people to stop be able to do their job, the same way how I might not recall how to work with a Java enterprise codebase purely through the CLI, because all of the run profiles in JetBrains IDEs have rotten my own brain, except apply it to developing any software at all.

Maybe not the best analogy because running things isn't too hard when you can reference a Dockerfile, but definitely stuff around running tests and passing the plethora of parameters that are needed to just stand the damned thing up correctly with the right profiles and so on.

That's also like asking people to stop using Google for a while, upon which I bet most of us are reliant to a pretty large degree. Or StackOverflow, for finding things that people wouldn't be able to discover themselves (whether due to a lack of skills, or enough time).

I think the reliance on AI tools will only go upwards.

Here's my own little rant about it from a bit back: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-artisans-and-brainrot