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These sorts of articles just seem silly to me. Use AI where it helps you and avoid where it doesn't. That dividing line may change week to week. I think it's great for writing tests and sanity checking changes but wouldn't let it write core driver code(I'm a systems programmer so YMMV). Maybe in a month I'll think differently.
That just sounds like everyone is going to be management. Blindly setting goals and demanding features of a black box, formerly the development team, soon to be 'AI' agents.
Cognitive Debt has existed much earlier before LLMs became mainstream. Technical people got good at their jobs and then was promoted to management. After time they lost their technical abilities but if they are a good manager they kept up to date with the technological landscape and used their engineering thinking to ensure that the people below them worked to their optimum efficiency to achieve the companies goals.…
The funny part is that these are the same people who are upset that these folks up the food chain "do nothing".
> the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared understanding of how and why that system works and can be changed over time That just sounds like everyone is going to be management. Blindly setting goals and demanding features of a black box, formerly the development team, soon to be 'AI' agents.
I find it disconcerting that an article about cognitive debt contains many "tells" of being written by AI.
I had the same reaction, but the article is not AI-generated according to pangram, which I've generally found reliable. I wonder if LLM turns of phrase and even thought patterns are creeping into normal human thought.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same reaction, but the article is not AI-generated according to pangram, which I've generally found reliable. I wonder if LLM turns of phrase and even thought patterns are creeping into normal human thought.
Or, stay with me here, the LLMs were trained on how we, statistically, write.
AI is making people afraid as they run into these things. It's a little sad that they don't have the historical context or perspective to realize these are old problems. I imagine this is what Samurai felt like as flintlock guns came in and completely upended hundreds of years of martial tradition. How will they be able to defend themselves if they don't learn Kenjutsu? What will happen to our Bushido?
And I do think the fear is warranted. But I don't think people are going to act differently once they realize this unfortunate status quo hasn't yet led to the collapse of civilization, or their paychecks. Once the fear has passed, we will move on into the new normal, willfully ignorant and mildly disappointed.
Cognitive Debt has existed much earlier before LLMs became mainstream. Technical people got good at their jobs and then was promoted to management. After time they lost their technical abilities but if they are a good manager they kept up to date with the technological landscape and used their engineering thinking to ensure that the people below them worked to their optimum efficiency to achieve the companies goals.…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same reaction, but the article is not AI-generated according to pangram, which I've generally found reliable. I wonder if LLM turns of phrase and even thought patterns are creeping into normal human thought.
Or, stay with me here, the LLMs were trained on how we, statistically, write.