Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    17 days ago

    I think in five years — if the tools manage to stick around — finding coders that can work without AI assistance will be like finding skilled assembler developers.

    EDIT: Yep I’m definitely a bot because I typed an em dash. You can be a bot too on Ubuntu by hitting control+shift+u and then typing 2014 (the last year of semi-sanity in US politics).

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      16·
      18 days ago

      Sweet. I’m set for life, and I’ll get to be one of those devs that tells the bosses what I’ve decided to work on.

      • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        Most of Africa, from what I heard from African developers.

        There are still large patches where the internet has outages often, data centers there too suffer from it. Same with energy, depending on the region it is not a guarantee.

        (This is of course a consequence of Africa still transforming and putting up infrastructure, and it varies vastly depending on the region).

        It’s hard to code with remote LLMs if they can go dark for half a day, and it is pricey to have it running on a local stack (at good token output speed).

    • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      17 days ago

      Isn’t the entire point of computers to achieve a result faster than we could without them?

      Your argument seems like bemoaning the invention of the paint roller because people won’t learn how to use brushes or their hands to paint walls.

      Work output isn’t inherently more valuable just because the job was harder to do, or took more effort.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        Eh, not really, and it isn’t really an argument but more of a lighthearted prediction.

        I think the big question is whether or not the “frontier” models continue to be available and evolve, because the business model for running them seems very unsound.

        I kinda hope the AI bubble busts, and that afterwards some of the efforts turn toward making open source models more performant and powerful.