I’ve been thinking of LLMs a bit like a credit-card-for-the-mind, it reduces friction to accessing and enabling your own expertise. But if you don’t have that expertise already, be careful, eventually it’ll catch up to you and a big bill will be due.

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bluefirebrand 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Unfortunately a lot of people are basically just hoping that by the time the big bill is due, they have cashed out and left the bill on someone else

I also think that even with expertise, people relying too much on AI are going to erode their expertise

If you can lift heavy weights, but start to use machines to lift instead, your muscles will shrink and you won't be able to lift as much

The brain is a muscle it must be exercised to keep it strong too

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danielbln 2 days ago | parent [-]

We are in the business of automation, this is also automation. What good is doing the manual work if automation provides good enough results. I increasingly consider the code an implementation detail and spend most of my thinking one abstraction level higher. It's not always there yet but it's really often good enough to great, given the right oversight.

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bluefirebrand 2 days ago | parent [-]

Code is not just an implementation detail, I wish people would knock it off with that idea

It would be like saying "roofs are just an implementation detail of building a house". Fine, but you build the roof wrong your house is going to suck

	▲	danielbln 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm tasking a contractor to lay the roof tiles and just give them my specifications. How they lay the tiles, I don't care, as long as it passes inspection afterwards and conforms to my spec.

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saltcured 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think this phrase is beautiful

assuming you were referencing "bicycle for the mind"