Post #433152
2026-02-18 11:37 UTC
My experience with generative-AI has been that, at its very best, it is subtly wrong in ways that only an expert in the relevant subject would recognise. So I don't worry about us creating super-intelligent AI, I worry about us allowing that expertise to atrophy through laziness and greed. I refuse to use LLMs not because I'm scared of how clever they are, but because I do not wish to become stupider.
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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social 2026-02-18 13:29
I will say one thing for generative AI: since these tools function by remixing/translating existing information, that vibe programming is so popular demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of our industry in not making this stuff easier. If a giant ball of statistics can mostly knock up a working app in minutes, this shows not that gen-AI is insanely clever, but that most of the work in making an app has always been stupid. We have gatekeeped programming behind vast walls of nonsense.
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@matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it 2026-02-18 12:03
So far, the research is in your favour regarding atrophy!
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@coldclimate@hachyderm.io 2026-02-18 12:33
@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social belter