Comment on The Copilot Delusion

• AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are definitely parts of programming that are boring and repetitive. I’ve been using AI to speed that up. I still do the creative parts 100% myself.

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• plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s wildly incorrect and somehow serves to underscore the original point.

  Scribes were not glorified photocopiers; they had to reconcile poorly written and translated sources, do a lot of research on imperfect and incomplete information, try to figure out if the notes in the margin should be included in future transcriptions, etc. Their work required real subject matter expertise, training and technique, was painstaking and excruciating, and many hand written manuscripts are absolutely works of art.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then I apologise about my ignorance on the matter, but you’re now making the same point as the author - were you mocking or sharing their perspective?

    There’s a lot that goes behind “work” that you don’t see in the final output. It’s important to care about that art, and a shallow copy is just not the same as “the real thing”. Right?

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    • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Both, I think? Respecting the craft and expertise of the way we used to do things is important, but the author is being melodramatic and I wanted to poke some fun.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s something people have wondered since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Is a mechanically mass produced widget the real thing? People even make fun of the biological locally grown artisanal produced food and the recycled hand made furniture. Shein is quite popular with their fast fashion. Except the rich will have tailor made clothes of course.

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• Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You are wildly out of touch with both history and reality if you think this was stupid

  quocirca.com/…/the-gutenberg-revolution-how-the-p….

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