AI isn't a pit. AI is a ladder.
AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
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Re: AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
#12This tracks for other areas of AI I am more familiar with. Below average people can use AI to get average results.
That explains why people here are against it, because everyone is above average I guess.
Re: AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
#13Mixing this with a metaphor from earlier: giving a child a credit card is also a floor raiser.
Re: AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
#14Since agents are good only at greenfield projects, the logical conclusion is that existing codebases have to be prepared such that new features are (opinionated) greenfield projects - let all the wiring dangle out of the wall so the intern just has to plug in the appliance. All the rest has to be done by humans, or the intern will rip open the wall to hang a picture.
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#15AI is chairs.
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#16AI is a wall raiser.
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#17You'll find many people lack the willpower and confidence to even get on the floor though. If it weren't for that they'd already know a programming language and be selling something.
Re: AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
#18Only for the people already affluent enough to afford the ever-more expensive subscriptions. Those most in need of a floor-raising don’t have the disposable income to take a bet on AI.
Either you are the item being sold or you are paying for the service.
Nothing is free, and I for one prefer a subscription model, if only as a change from the ad model.
I am sure we will see the worst of all worlds, but for now, for this moment in history, subscription is better than ads.
Let’s also never have ads in GenAi tools. The kind of invasive intent level influence these things can achieve, will make our current situation look like a paradise
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#19AI is an interpolator, not an extrapolator.
I read this as interloper. What's an extraloper?
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#20People should be worried because right now AI is on an exponential growth trajectory and no-one knows when it will level off into an s-curve. AI is starting to get close to good enough. If it becomes twice as good in seven months then what?