Comment on AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoI am also learning to code and have been for years casually. In fact, I can program basic stuff in a couple languages.
I do not believe I am harming a single person by making scripts for myself and small team by using AI that allows me to produce better code while still being able to do my day job (which is not programming).
In fact, I learn a lot by using AI and having to do research. I learn more than I would on my own because being able to use LLMs to assist me has allowed me to take on projects that wouldn’t make sense for me to attempt if I had to spend weeks to get to the same outcome.
I am well aware of how LLMs work. I have read numerous articles, white papers, talked to ML engineers, etc. I know their limitations pretty well. I think they are much less capable than almost all laypeople I have spoken to about it.
All that is to say: LLMs have some legitimate use cases. They are wasteful, inaccurate, etc etc. But they have use cases. People are hyperbolic in both directions on them.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When experts across multiple disciples, all across the world, are sounding the alarms about AI that is not being hyperbolic.
You are basically learning from something incapable of teaching you the fundamentals, and who will never challenge you and help your refine your own critical thinking and research skills like a mentor or a professor will.
When you use AI, all you are really doing is helping your employer make a profit lay the groundwork to justify firing you and your colleagues down the road.
You know what I made with my programming and coding skills?
Patches and updates so you could have more fun playing with your computer, making digital art apps more streamlined and easy to use, adding accessibility features for the disabled.
AI is just there to make you more “efficient” so you can make someone else a profit, all while the billionaire owners continue to rape the planet and everything in it.