Comment by jrs235
6 days ago
Regarding #3. I feel it's related to this idea: We can build a wood frame house with 2x4's or toothpicks. AI directed and generated code today tends to build things overly complex with more pieces than necessary. I feel like an angry foreman yelling at AI to fix this, change that, etc. I feel I spend more time and energy supervising AI while getting a sloppier end result.
Thankfully, yelling like an angry foreman is more effective on LLMs than people.
> Get your fucking act together, and stop with the bullshit comments, shipping unfinished code, and towering mess of abstractions. I've seen you code properly before. You're an expert for God's sake. One more mistake, and you're fired. Fix it, now!
I wouldn't talk that way to an LLM for fear of its bleeding over into my interactions with people.
Back when computer performance was increasing faster than it is now and was more important to the user experience, a friend upgraded to a faster computer and suddenly became more impatient with me. He seemed to have expected my response time to have drastically decreased just like his computer's did.
Effects like these, those of our tools on ourselves which occur slowly/subtly enough that we hardly notice, underlie a great many of our greatest problems, I think