If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis. There's no connection because the tool is immutable (except for adjustments you made) but you do develop a specific relation with that tool. Some people even love some of their tools at some level.

And if humans are anything, they are tool users.

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coldtea 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis

Can be both. Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hammers.

>And if humans are anything, they are tool users.

To the point of self-destruction sometimes.

	▲	scotty79 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hammers. I really don't get it. Why the fact that it outputs words is so goddamn important for everybody? How does it suddenly make you so emotionally vulnerable? Does my brain work in a different way than the rest of humanity? Can't you disregard what's irrelevant? Is every programmer suddenly a trump supporter that has no ability to recognize empty words? To recognize lies about emotions and facts? Words are just input. Mostly garbage. Emotion inducing words are garbage 10 times more often than any other. I could expect romance reader to be affected, or somebody with iq 70. But how the caste of some of the most technical people ever is afraid of catching psychosis just because they might read some words?

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j-bos 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, AI tools bring software developers closer to the messy real world where 0 and 1 aren't always exactly 0 and 1.