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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve seen people defend using AI this way by comparing it to using a calculator in a math class, i.e. if the technology knows it, I don’t need to.

And I feel like, for the kind of people whose grasp of technology, knowledge, and education are so juvenile that they would believe such a thing, AI isn’t making them dumber. They were already dumb. What the AI does is make code they don’t understand more accessible, which is to say, it’s just enabling dumb people to be more dangerous.

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AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spot on description

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yup. And I’m unwilling to be the QC in a coding assembly line, I want competent peers who catch things before I do.

But my point isn’t that AI actively makes individuals dumber, it’s making people in general dumber. I believe that to be true about a lot of technology. In the 80s, people were familiar with command-line interfaces, and jumping to some coding wasn’t a huge leap, but today, people can’t figure out how to do a thing unless there’s an app for it. AI is just the next step along that path, soon, even traditionally competent industries will be little more than QC and nobody will remember how the sausage is made.

If they can demonstrate that they know how the sausage is made and how to inspect a sausage of packages, I’m fine with it. But if they struggle to even open the sausage package, we’re going to have problems.

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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, I honestly don’t have any real issue with using it to accelerate your workflow. I think it’s hit or miss how much it does, but it’s probably slightly stepped up from code completion without “AI”.

But if you don’t understand every line of code “you” write completely, you’re being grossly negligent and begging for a shitshow.

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