> A “thinker” who doesn’t write, who skips the step of “merely” synthesizing their vague thoughts into prose, is not thinking. And then these people give their noise to the AI.

OP is quite good with words and has a high standard and world view. The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise.

It's a medium to pack the idea into "something" that represents the idea. It was never about a finished and polished product. It's the sign language for deaf people - a way to show your thoughts.

I'm certain that the people presenting their github repo do put quite some effort (= prompt work) into it, which IS the thinking process. At the end of the day, most developers are introverts that can think very well but have hard times with soft skills.

Everyone wants to be proud of his work, let us don't blame them how the show it off.

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zetalyrae 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise.

Isn't this a bit circular? They're not communicating to the AI through a BCI.

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jrmg 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise.

What?! This is nonsense. You’re really making the argument that most people getting LLMs to write for them just couldn’t communicate in any way five years ago?

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recursive-call 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The five-years-ago internet was certainly full of incoherently expressed ideas (and still is now). For some people AI is just spellcheck on the sentence/paragraph level.

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		As a reader, I appreciate reading writing that lacks large amounts of spelling mistakes. Everyone agreeing on spelling seems like a useful monoculture, like driving on the same side of the road. But I don't feel the same way about AI writing. It feels totally different in a way that good spelling does not. Even if I liked the style, I would object strongly to that style quickly becoming a monoculture. We're on a path to a style optimized for shallow attention maximization becoming the majority of text we read.