For all these people insisting you will be left behind for not using the tool, even if it is not magic:
How do I learn to read code? Because I will never blindly trust AI output, but I also do not know how to read it for correctness. Just how to create a test. I am beginner enough that writing is a lot easier than reading, and reading would honestly take me awhile.
Everything in me is straining against using AI and not having the skills to actually check its output, while knowing it sometimes spews bullshit that looks correct, is an actual legitimate barrier to using it and not just my personal distaste. Meanwhile I at least understand what I wrote. If I am to ever change my mind and unhappily jump on the train, feeling very very dirty but also not wanting to be left behind in a paradigm shift then I still have to be able to error-check it.
Yes I get the point of the article, but also there are some inventions that really did change the way we did things and probably had some people hyping it up as a must-have as per always—we just also have tons of examples of must-haves that did not turn out to be that way. And while you are being bombarded by the hype it is hard to know if the invention will fade away, will have a place but you can also get away without using it, or if it’ll be a thing everyone uses and that you’ll seem crazy not to, like refrigerators and the internet. Hindsight is 20/20, but in the present we’re walking around in heavy fog, possibly with blindfolds on.
I figure I’ll just keep not using AI and if I do get left behind, then I’ll force myself to use it. Learning to read code is useful either way ;)
For all these people insisting you will be left behind for not using the tool, even if it is not magic:
How do I learn to read code? Because I will never blindly trust AI output, but I also do not know how to read it for correctness. Just how to create a test. I am beginner enough that writing is a lot easier than reading, and reading would honestly take me awhile.
Everything in me is straining against using AI and not having the skills to actually check its output, while knowing it sometimes spews bullshit that looks correct, is an actual legitimate barrier to using it and not just my personal distaste. Meanwhile I at least understand what I wrote. If I am to ever change my mind and unhappily jump on the train, feeling very very dirty but also not wanting to be left behind in a paradigm shift then I still have to be able to error-check it.
Yes I get the point of the article, but also there are some inventions that really did change the way we did things and probably had some people hyping it up as a must-have as per always—we just also have tons of examples of must-haves that did not turn out to be that way. And while you are being bombarded by the hype it is hard to know if the invention will fade away, will have a place but you can also get away without using it, or if it’ll be a thing everyone uses and that you’ll seem crazy not to, like refrigerators and the internet. Hindsight is 20/20, but in the present we’re walking around in heavy fog, possibly with blindfolds on.
I figure I’ll just keep not using AI and if I do get left behind, then I’ll force myself to use it. Learning to read code is useful either way ;)