It took me way too long to get what deskilling means
my best of is: Desk-illing, des-killing, or deskil-ling
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it was likely a typo for desk-killing
inevitable syntax ambiguity aside, "deskill-ling" would be a good term for someone who has been de-skilled
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TBH I always felt the same way with "Blueprint" programming where you plug nodes into nodes.
To this day never once used them.
It's basically the same as programming, just very indirect and slow- but it still requires you to fundamentally understand the concepts of the 'modules' you are using. Vibe coding has borderline random elements.
Are there seriously scientists who think AI assistants are good enough for the job?
I use copilot at work. the predictive generation is pretty good i.e you start writing a for loop and it finishes it for you with all the variable names used correctly (most of the time). This also has the added benefit of making you name your variables clearly. the better they are the better the predicitions will be. i wouldnt trust it to do more than that though
Second this. I want it to write the code I already wanted to write anyway - but faster. I don't want it to design (hallucinate) its own code.
A friend of mine wanted to make an incremental game. I told them "hey that's a pretty good project to learn programming with" but they insisted on using an LLM. Then they proudly showed me what they got so far, it was a decent looking singular html page, but without any game logic whatsoever. Most of the code was just stylesheets - and even those had some questionable things going on lol
This has been happening for quite a while. Do you know how to work a sewing machine? Have you ever repaired your clothes? Oh well, back to Walmart.
yeah, or cooking good point, that's very worrisome
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I still think that local models in places without internet are better then offline documentation.
Yeah definitely not our profit driven models.
AI can do it cheaper... so just have the AI do it. Its that simple, people really don't like it when things are so simple but can't do anything about it. So they just make shit up like this.
He still got a point, but premise is pretty ridiculous.