Comment by ulrikrasmussen
1 day ago
I think LLMs have some of the same risks and benefits of stimulant drugs. They can make you more productive if used effectively as a tool, but they can also delude you into thinking you are better than you are and create a dependence such that you aren't just less productive without the LLM/drug, you fail to be productive at all because you don't know how to function without it.
That sounds somewhat applicable to many tools. Like Vim/Emacs, for example. Or computers and smart phones in general.
Yeah, like caffeine is to meth
Thank you for this, the hand waving comparisons of AI and anything else is getting out of hand on HN. Your ”like caffeine is to meth” is one of the more succinct and describing sentences I’ve seen describe the difference.
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Computers - mostly no.
Smartphones - mostly yes.
Smartphones are fully portable which makes them always available and super addictive.
Computers have 10% of that addictive power.