Yep, that's the title. Stop thinking of AI like an unfair "cheatcode" and start thinking of it as a new programming language. Maybe in other domains, this analogy doesn't match. But that's okay. You're mostly concerned about coding/sysadmin/etc.
People think that AI lowers the bar too much, eroding the influence of experts, degrading quality. Maybe so. But this is not new. The same was surely said when C threatened the monopoly of B, and machine code, etc. C allowed "not real programmers" to write programs. This was anathema. A violation of the sacred codex! Heretical! And yet, it worked. Now C is beloved of (almost) all. At least revered.
And so on, and so on. AI is just a new programming language. It is not "conscious". It is not AGI. It is barely a form of mechanized intelligence. It is not your friend. It is just a thing. A tool. A very useful, multi-tool. But still (right now), a tool.
That's how you think about AI, and win. You don't get bitter. You don't even need to "get even". You just get on with it. Just do it. Use it. It's a tool. So get to work! :)
If your C code just pseudo-randomly ran the wrong code, gave the wrong results, would you be happy with it? Would having to write half a dozen programs to cross-check each others work to make C efficient? What if you could not write C from scratch and only could hire interns to go find and copy/paste pre-existing C code?
Yes, absolutely, AI is a tool. But it has some serious weaknesses and anyone who isn't educated and open about those weaknesses is going to apply the tool in the wrong places.
Some more years of PhDs researching, a million GPUs burning the sky and your language may be able to count the number of "r"s in strawberry. Or 3 minutes in C.
Get to work!
This is the right way to think about ai right now.
So get to work!
Work, what's that? -- 25yo CS grad jerking it in childhood bedroom
it's a tool until it's no more
> Stop thinking of AI like an unfair "cheatcode" and start thinking of it as a new programming language.
I have never thought of it as a cheat code at all. I also don't think of it as a new programming language (because it's not). It's a tool.
It's not one that I find all that useful, and under ordinary circumstances, all that would mean is that I don't use it. Where the hard feelings come in is that it's being shoved into other tools that I use and so is increasingly becoming an irritation that gets in my way. The constant stream of sales pitches and propaganda doesn't help, either.