Comment by asveikau
2 hours ago
Thank you, this is coming close to my own reaction to the article.
Folks reading this: none of this bullshit and hype is inevitable. You don't have to be delusionally enthusiastic about something just because a lot of people around you are.
Absolutely right! Honestly, I hate AI even though it COULD make me 10x more productive in what I do. I can think of a dozen tasks that AI could help me with.
Audio processing for instance: I process audio by hand, it's more of a rote task, and it takes me hours a week to do it. AI COULD give me what I want in probably one minute. One minute instead of one hour.
But firstly, I've built up my audio processing skill over years and I enjoy it. It's calming. It's not creative, thinking up new stuff-type work but it's calming. And secondly, I want to do things myself. I don't want to let a machine do everything so I can concentrate on the high level stuff.
In fact, what I've found is that my mind works best when I'm NOT concentrating on high-level stuff. When I just go about my tasks by hand.
Do I write code to save time? Yes I do. But I write the code by hand and I understand how things work from first principles, as far as possible of course.
So, I don't use AI. AI could take away hours of work for me and I don't use it because I hate it and I hate the idea it represents.