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Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by alexchamberlain »

vbezhenar wrote: post #20
alexchamberlain wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest worry about AI is that it will do all the basic stuff, so people will never have a chance to learn and move on to the more complex stuff. I think there's a name for this, but I can't find it right now. In the hands of a tenured expert though, AI should be a big step up.

Do you worry about calculators preventing people to master big number multiplication? That's an interesting question actually. When I was a kid, calculators were not as widespread and I could easily multiply 4-digit numbers in my brain. Nowadays I'd be happy to multiply 2-digit numbers without mistakes. But I carry my smartphone with me, so there's just no need to do so... So while learning basic stuff is definitely…

Honestly, I think we already see that in wider society, where mental arithmetic has more or less disappeared. This is in general fine ofc, but it makes it much harder to check the output of a machine if you can't do approximate calculations in your head.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by arrowsmith »

cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

Should we call them the “AI generation generation”?

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by motorest »

cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

> It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves.

I am from the generation whose only options on the table were RTFM and/or read the source code. Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore, but chatbots are.

I welcome chatbots. They greatly simplify research tasks. We are no longer bound to stake/poorly written docs.

I think we have a lot of old timers ramping up on their version of "I walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways". Not a good look. We old timers need to do better.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by zekica »

roygbiv2 wrote: post #38
dagw wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently from what I've read, universities are already starting to see this. More and more students are incapable of acquiring knowledge from books. Once they reach a point where the information they need cannot be found in ChatGPT or YouTube videos they're stuck.

If AI can't find it, how do we?

By using your brain and a web search engine / searchable book index in your library / time or even asking a question somewhere public?

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by adammacleod »

arrowsmith wrote: post #42
cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

Should we call them the “AI generation generation”?

I vote for GenAI
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