It's not empowering to hand off the details
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It's not empowering to hand off the details
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#2All details are not created equal.
Some details are boring.
My AI dream (that I’m living happily) is getting to focus on the details that I find interesting and ignoring all the boilerplate details that modern software requires.
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#3Every word of this seems objectively false. AI is more than capable of handling the details. I have generated countless tools for myself without needing to know or care about the details.
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#5Every word of this seems objectively false. AI is more than capable of handling the details. I have generated countless tools for myself without needing to know or care about the details.
Tools? Yes. Reliable foundations? Eh, mostly not. Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I'm not impressed. Not in the least because in order to get a good system you must have a good image of the system in your head. And if AI builds the system, how will you ever get that system in your head?
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#6Every word of this seems objectively false. AI is more than capable of handling the details. I have generated countless tools for myself without needing to know or care about the details.
It’s always tools tho, and AI tools especially. Why not anything else?
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#7All details are not created equal. Some details are boring. My AI dream (that I’m living happily) is getting to focus on the details that I find interesting and ignoring all the boilerplate details that modern software requires.
So what? Jobs aren't supposed to be fun. Lots of people depend on those boring details.
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#8Every word of this seems objectively false. AI is more than capable of handling the details. I have generated countless tools for myself without needing to know or care about the details.
I think the author means ecomonically valuable not valuable to you.
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#9> to become good at the thing in the first place requires a complete reversal of the mindset that would lead one to having wanted to hand it off
Is this true? I can be good at something and be happy to not have to do it anymore I feel
Re: It's not empowering to hand off the details
#10All details are not created equal. Some details are boring. My AI dream (that I’m living happily) is getting to focus on the details that I find interesting and ignoring all the boilerplate details that modern software requires.
You said what I was thinking. AI can do the things I always found mind numbing and tedious, but because I did it already early in my career, I know when to intervene because the agent is not doing it correctly. I think that is the OP's point.