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"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by tsukurimashou »

saadn92 wrote: post #28
dudisubekti wrote: post #7

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.

People also used to say that Google or calculators will make you dumber. Neither happened. Won't happen with this either.

it clearly did make "people" dumber because now "people" believe in AI ;)

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by d_silin »

kylecazar wrote: post #23
d_silin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people aren't anywhere close to Terence Tao on intelligence scale. Even most of HN commenters aren't that close to Terence Tao.

I don't think balancing AI use with creativity and thought is a matter of IQ. It comes down to how you use the tool.

In my practice, I found AI are more useful in adversarial mode ("criticize this concept, "find a possible bug in this code", "challenge me", "quiz me on the knowledge"), because the knowledge found adds up to your own skills.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by spamizbad »

The statement is absurd because the skill curve for AI tooling is so small you can can mess around for a day or two and get "caught up" with the zeitgeist. And what you need to know to get started is actually far less these days than it was 1.5 years ago thanks to all the product refinement that took place in the space.

The only real risk is that today there's an expectation from employers that you've got some AI experience under your belt you can articulate. But you can get that experience today.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by moron4hire »

furyofantares wrote: post #13

Some people who don't use AI will be left behind - those who work on things where LLM's are capable of a substantial amount of the tasks will be left behind if they just refuse to leverage the superhuman properties that LLMs have. I don't think it's hard to catch up if such a person changes their mind, though. Some people who do use AI will be also left behind - those who use it to replace their skills without develo…

If LLMs mean I never have to open a PowerPoint from a client to pull out their "data" again, that'd be great. I gain nothing from being a manual data entry monkey for people who don't understand the concept that presentation-ready output formats are not data transmission formats.

But if I'm to be expected to employ vibecoding in my day to day job as a software engineer, I'll dismantle my house and go live off grid somewhere in Alaska. I have enough power tools and knowledge to do it. Probably massively healthier for my kids.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by eleventen »

dudisubekti wrote: post #7

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.

An orthogonal observation: Bearblog seems to have become an anti-AI echo chamber. Their community responds very positively to posts exactly like this one [1] [2] [3]

I think it's just important context to keep in mind that these sorts of takes are very typical to top https://bearblog.dev/discover/ in the same way that certain types of posts are designed to rank well here. I considered migrating my blog there earlier this year and ended up deciding that, while I loved the product, the community was not healthy.

[1] https://forkingmad.blog/ai-summary-blog-post/

[2] https://blog.spu.io/you-dont-want-to-make-things-you-want-to...

[3] https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by virissimo »

saadn92 wrote: post #28
dudisubekti wrote: post #7

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.

People also used to say that Google or calculators will make you dumber. Neither happened. Won't happen with this either.

People are worse at mental arithmetic than they were in the recent past, so it's not clear that they aren't "dumber" in the sense people meant at the time.

Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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Post by dudisubekti »

d_silin wrote: post #15
dudisubekti wrote: post #7

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.

Most people aren't anywhere close to Terence Tao on intelligence scale. Even most of HN commenters aren't that close to Terence Tao.

You don't need super big brain IQ to be creative and expressive, all you need is simply a strong opinion on something, and you don't let AI (or other people) dictate otherwise.

Now the skill issue lies in whether your opinion is a good idea or not lol.

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