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0 points_aavaa_1mo ago0 comments

You can enjoy doing woodworking without power tools but that's irrelevant to a job where people want it done fast with power tools.

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wsve1mo ago

Woodworking analogy for AI is not "power tools vs handsaw", its "power tools vs. wood 3D printer". You don't do any of the creating, you only ideate and allow the machine to do all the creating. It's simply not wood working anymore. Its something else entirely

IanCal1mo ago

You don’t have to choose between entirely hand coded and entirely AI built code.

wsve1mo ago

I cannot choose entirely hand-made code, I don't think I'll even be able to choose 50% hand-made code, because my manager will say "why aren't you just using the 3D Wood Printer 9000? Jeff is building house frames 5x faster than you, you need to get with the program or we're gonna let you go"

_aavaa_OP1mo ago

So what? If I want a cabinet I care about the final product. power tools, 3d printer, I don't care. If it means it gets done faster and cheaper and is good enough for my needs, then that's what I want. Someone else is free to pay for the costly artisanal approach if they want to.

paradox4601mo ago

A friend was recently redoing his kitchen. They hired a carpenter for cabinetry, and his wife asked him if he would be willing to make it with only hand tools.

Carpenter told her he'd be happy to, it would take 8 weeks longer, cost more, and probably wouldn't look any better than the regular way

j3k31mo ago

Except a power tool works as it should each and every time. 100% reproducible. That's what's so great about it.

Can we stop with the lazy analogies? Everyone's read some variant of this on here by now. Come up with something that's genius to read.

_aavaa_OP1mo ago

We have likewise read the same complain of "I want to keep doing it the old way, new way bad".

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wsve1mo ago

IanCal1mo ago

You don’t have to choose between entirely hand coded and entirely AI built code.

wsve1mo ago

_aavaa_OP1mo ago

paradox4601mo ago

A friend was recently redoing his kitchen. They hired a carpenter for cabinetry, and his wife asked him if he would be willing to make it with only hand tools.

Carpenter told her he'd be happy to, it would take 8 weeks longer, cost more, and probably wouldn't look any better than the regular way

j3k31mo ago

Except a power tool works as it should each and every time. 100% reproducible. That's what's so great about it.

Can we stop with the lazy analogies? Everyone's read some variant of this on here by now. Come up with something that's genius to read.

_aavaa_OP1mo ago

We have likewise read the same complain of "I want to keep doing it the old way, new way bad".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse