no, AI is supposed to reduce the labor costs for companies. that is how the AI companies are marketing their AI services to corporate C teams. any other benefits that their marketing departments are pushing to the public are smoke screens.
AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
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#42Ai amplifies intelligence/skill
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#44AI is filling "narrow" gaps. In the case of seniors these are: -techs they understand but still not master. AI aids with implementation details only experts knowb about - No time for long coding tasks. It aids with fast implementations and automatic tests. - No time for learning techs that adress well understood problems. Ai helps with quick intros, fast demos and solver of learners' misunderstandings In essence, in…
Feels like we're seeing AI accelerate those who already know where they're going, while leaving the early-stage learners still needing the same human guidance they always did.
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#45Ai closes the knowledge gap but it doesn't close the skill gap.
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#46Verification. That’s the whole issue in a nutshell. Can the output of a generative system be verified as accurate by a human (or ultimately verified by a human) Experts who can look at an output and verify if it is valid are the people who can use this. For anyone else it’s simply an act of faith, not skill.
Generative systems don’t really reduce the need for expertise, they just change its role. And yeah, without verification, you’re not coding with AI - you’re gambling with it.
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#47For the same reason that an amateur with a powertool ends up in the emergency room and a seasoned pro knows which way to point the business end. AI is in many ways a powertool, if you don't know what you are doing it will help you to do that much more efficiently. If you do know what you are doing it will do the same.
Power tools don't magically make you a carpenter - they just amplify whatever level of skill you already bring
Re: AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
#48I read, ages ago, this apocryphal quote by William Gibson: “The most important skill of the 21st century is to figure out which proper keywords to type in the Google search bar, to display the proper answers.” To me, that has never been more true. Most junior dev ask GeminiPiTi to write the JavaScript code for them, whereas I ask it for explanation on the underlying model of async/await and the execution model of a J…
Feels like the real "AI literacy" isn't prompt engineering in the meme sense, but building the conceptual scaffolding so that the prompts (and the outputs) actually connect to something meaningful
That’s my definition of prompt engineering.
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#50Verification. That’s the whole issue in a nutshell. Can the output of a generative system be verified as accurate by a human (or ultimately verified by a human) Experts who can look at an output and verify if it is valid are the people who can use this. For anyone else it’s simply an act of faith, not skill.
Agreed. There are other skills in play too though, such as knowing how to narrow the problem space to increase the chance of a good response.
It would be great if responses were tagged with uncertainty estimates.