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Comment by DenisM

6 hours ago

> because I need your help in rephrasing my comment above to make my point more clear

Sure. The bulk of your post reads as sharp criticism of “AI is a tool and needs requisite skills to operate”, promoting the idea that “AGents will do the thing for you”. Suddenly the last paragraph landed with “both AI and tools need requisite skills to operate”. By the time I got to the last paragraph I already made up my mind about your message and the contrast between two positions was far too small to jolt my attention.

The key improvement you can make is to spell out juxtaposition earlier.

Reverse engineering your original argument, and with benefit of your second comment, the juxtaposition is that the skill of wielding a hammer and the skill of operating AI are on the opposite ends of control / cooperation spectrum. The distance is in fact so huge that using hammers at starting point is naive at best and clickbait at worstt.

This brings me to my second point. Both of your comments are emotionally charged with incredulity. This did not put me, or you, into the mode of curious thinking.

As to the substance. If we were to stick with the frame of control / cooperation I would take a position closer to yours. The author is not clueless, they are early in their “journey” from left to right. We all are early, meaning that no matter where you are there is someone else right of you.

However, I found that frame far too constrictive yand left it behind about a month ago. I’d be happy to elaborate if you’re still reading. :)