Comment on Tough break, kid...

• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thinking AI is an upgrade from pencil to pen gives the impression that you spent zero effort incorporating it in your workflow, but still expecting the payoff. Feels like watching my Dad using Eclipse for 20 years but never learning anything more complicated than having multiple tabs.

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  • squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your original post referred to wanting to hire people based on the tools they use to do a task, not their ability to do the task. That’s why the comparison is accurate.

    Personally, I think caring that is silly.

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  • v_krishna@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get the downvotes. I’ve hired probably 30+ engineers over the last 5 or so years, and have been writing code professionally for over 20, and I fully agree with your sentiment.

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    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I edited the comment to provide actual info, it was originally just the first paragraph

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just the general ai hate. It’s not surprising, because machine learning is yet another scam area. But for programming you would be a complete fool to ignore copilot mastery since paper after paper proves it has completely revolutionised productivity. And it’s not normal to think you will be better than everyone when not using an assistant, it’s just the new paradigm. For starters it has made stack overflow be almost obsolete and it was the next most important tool…

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