Erik

This is a good answer. AI tools won’t make someone who has not yet developed programming skills into a good programmer. For someone who has a good grasp of implementation patterns and the toolkit for a given tech stack, they can speed things up by putting you into the role of a senior programmer reviewing code from multiple newbies.

I’m finding that for it to work well, you have to split things up into very small pieces. You also have to really own your AI automation prompts and scripts. You can’t just copy what some YouTuber did and expect it to work well in your environment.

In most measurable ways, it was much worse. Crime, mortality, institutionalized racism, war, etc. It looks worse now because every action and word by the people considered newsworthy is magnified and judged by thousands of opinions, many of which originate in troll farms, and many which are intended to be deliberately divisive.

Yes, the US government is infested with fascists. Yes, wealth inequality is worse than it ever was. These are real problems, and worse than they ever were before. (Though I wonder sometimes about how much damage was done by Reagan, and whether denying basic government protections to the poor was just more acceptable then.)

It looks AI-generated to me.

YouTube has been great for science content, but the algorithm is mediocre at best for me. It still pushes crap I have never shown an interest in, and keeps popping up the same ones I already marked as “not interested.”

LLMs can be good if it is a narrowly-defined subject, but it’s hard to tell when it’s running off the rails. Perhaps if it were possible to create an authoritative training data set, but that’s not on any VC funded company’s agenda.

Definitely not. I don’t post low effort snide comments as a reply and think that I’m witty.

That most people are much dumber than they initially appear to be. “Average intelligence” isn’t enough to form a basic understanding of the world.