Cameri🐦🔥 on Nostr: > If AI does turn out to make you dumber, why can’t we just keep writing code by ...
> If AI does turn out to make you dumber, why can’t we just keep writing code by hand? You can! You just might not be able to earn a salary doing so, for the same reason that there aren’t many jobs out there for carpenters who refuse to use power tools. If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability for a short-term lucrative career.
- Sean Goedecke
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