Comment by Incipient

17 days ago

If the AI is pointing you in a direction, how much creativity is lost through the mathematician no longer doing that?

I genuinely feel AI makes the ability to come up with approaches worse in software dev.

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Incipient

I probe Claude on occasion when I don't feel like looking up source documentation. A couple weeks ago, I was interrogating it about a system that happened to use Kafka. Last night, I was asking it to propose an entirely different solution and it kept trying to shoe horn Kafka into it. I asked it why and proposed a simpler alternative. I was absolutely right! Claude was just very eager to demonstrate familiarity with other systems I was working on!

I shudder to think of the things people will wind up shipping blindly accepting AI guidance.

ayuoo9 17 days ago

Reminds me of this quote:

     To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
     - Hunter S. Thompson