Black-and-white thinking like this is not healthy. You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal. Some mathematicians like Terence Tao are comfortable doing this, for example.
I feel like I use AI this way, but a majority of my peers lean too much into it. There used to be the sentence "we don't think, we google", and I see that with ai usage. As soon as a roadblock appears, the situation is pasted in GPT without further engaging with it, then they pick up the phone and open an app while GPT does its thing 0_o
Any engineer (any person actually) can “learn to use AI” in a couple of days. It’s not rocket science; there’s no chance of left behind. If you haven’t use LLMs at all, a weekend would be enough to be on par with everyone else in the industry
I'm no AI-hypeman (nor the opposite, I guess), and I agree that replacing AI for critical thinking and writing will only turn out bad in the long-term. But "your dignity"? You mean like "I feel shameful over that people saw that my writing was actually AI?" or something else?
> You mean like "I feel shameful over that people saw that my writing was actually AI?" or something else? Well if you don't have dignity in the first place, its hard to have any shame over losing it
I suppose. So I still don't understand why users of AI should feel like they've lost their dignity, does it matter where the AI runs or using AI is just shameful regardless?
well some folks probably do, which is why they seem "anti-AI" to you (I certainly do care about my skills atrophying, and it's the reason I don't use "AI")
> excited about technology
there is a difference between being excited about technology and falling into marketing traps
I know, it's weird. I'm really excited about it, but somehow there's a bunch of people on here who are largely negative about it all and make weirdly misinformed statements, it's like they haven't really tried it, they think they have, but it's often obvious they tried it early last year or didn't really get it. I think minimum you need to vibe code a piece of software of some sort. Don't write a single line of code just prompt your way to a finished product. This is going to tell you a lot. First, thing you start realizing, your approach to prompting makes a big difference to what you get. You really need to think about the design/feature set of your program you are making. For me, it just became plainly obvious coding was more of a hinderance and I was too busy thinking about the application itself, features and how they should work together. Not that it's all happy days, still problems occur at the code level. But once you get to this stage you start having a really clear idea of its strengths and weaknesses. For me, I actually find myself thinking a lot more, having a lot more ideas, experimenting more and iterating a lot faster.
this discussion is so stupid. no one who isn't a moron is offloading all work and thought to LLMs. no one who isn't a moron is seriously afraid of their thinking and learning skill "atrophying", whatever tf that means. it's clear that LLMs are unique in that you actually do have the capability to turn your brain off and blindly trust whatever it does for you. but it should be equally clear that that's a stupid approa…
Came here to write something like that his. It’s so sad we still have these stupid conversations with people thinking black and white in 2026.
Black-and-white thinking like this is not healthy. You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal. Some mathematicians like Terence Tao are comfortable doing this, for example.
> You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal.
It remains the case that AI _erodes_ your ability to that.
So, eventually, after a few years, no, you can't.
Edit: meanwhile you're making yourself disposable. So, have fun with that.
When on the road to hell, it's OK to be left behind.
But what if all the good jobs are only in hell?
a good job is one that brings you joy and improves your creativitiy, they by definition can't be in hell. if you mean well paying, that's a different thing entirely, ditch the fancy car and adjust your lifestyle