Comment by happytoexplain
3 days ago
Ironic in a good way, you mean? Like employing a counterfeiter to help identify counterfeits?
Regardless, I don't think it's correct on this one.
3 days ago
Ironic in a good way, you mean? Like employing a counterfeiter to help identify counterfeits?
Regardless, I don't think it's correct on this one.
I'm not pro-AI (at least not the way the SOTA model companies operate) but I'm tired of seeing "written by AI" on every single thing on HN.
I get "wRiTteN bY aI!" comments on my open source projects when, in fact, I didn't use AI at all. I've considered sharing some of my recent reverse engineering work on HN but am confident that it would devolve into "it must have been written by AI" bs.
Is it important to know if something was created with AI? Yes. But spewing "written by AI!" without reading/evaluating something yourself is just as lazy.
The new generation of engineers will never know a world where all software was written by humans. As someone who spent 22 years writing assembly and low-level C/C++, I think that's a shame. But that is the new reality.
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> You never knew this world either.
One of the reasons the world is so fucked up is because people have lost respect for expertise. I was on the original Visual Studio team at Microsoft and helped rebuild Xcode from scratch at Apple. I have 30 years worth of experience building low-level software and that experience matters.
If we were talking about cancer treatments and someone said, "Hey, I've been an oncologist for three decades" it would be ridiculous to not at least listen to what what they had to say.
Experience and expertise matters; now more than ever.
Lastly, why create a new account just to make that comment?