Fuck AI

While I also don’t see how it’s productive, it can be useful for certain things, certain steps. But it really seems like you need to have the knowledge in question to help it do a good job.

People underestimate how much handholding it needs. You can tell it to do something and it might but you may not like the results. However with a bit of interaction or setting context, it might. The pretentious are calling it “prompt engineering” but it’s a combination of asking ai questions and modifying your terminology until it does what you want

People also don’t seem to understand ai really puts a premium on evaluation. You don’t see it being written but you own it, so you really need to look through the result in detail to understand whether it’s what you wanted. I see this in code a lot where the LLM produces something but a junior developer doesn’t have the skill to evaluate it before committing to source control