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0 pointsyuye6d ago0 comments

I don't think the analogy works. You're focusing on the "how", not the "what". Using a mechanical planer, you still need to dial in numbers yourself. You design your own table, the more modern tools just make it easier to realize your vision.

Another example: I enjoy writing with a good pen. But whether I write by pen or on a keyboard, it's still me writing it.

However, AI does basically all the real work, only leaving you to guide it. Make a table? AI gives you one with 2 legs. More legs? Guess I can live with 5 legs.

And you wouldn't be making that table, AI is. You cannot have pride in something that you never made yourself. It's the same as 3D-printing something from Thingiverse and claiming you made it.

People who create AI blog posts are not writing. Those that prompt their way to a piece of software are not doing software engineering. The ones that generate AI images are not being artists.

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theshrike796d ago

Yea, it's not a perfect analogy =) I've been trying to figure out the perfect one, but the one that hits most would need to be done as a comic strip format - and I can't draw for shit and refuse to use AI for it. Maybe one day.

It all depends on the view you take on the thing. What real problem are you solving? If the problem is "I need a table for X", both ways solve it. How the problem is solved is secondary.

I don't need pride in "making it myself", what I get pride in is "I solved this problem". Printing something out of Thingiverse still solves the problem, as does buying something ready-made. For me, personally, the means doesn't matter - I get zero dopamine in doing something the hard way, quite the opposite.

As for the writing, there are actual studies that writing by hand activates different parts of your brain than typing.

yuyeOP6d ago

>I don't need pride in "making it myself", what I get pride in is "I solved this problem"

Except you didn't solve the problem. Yes, the problem was solved, but not by you.

When I was in high school, the school library had a "Where's Waldo" book. Someone has taken a red marker and marked with big red arrows where Waldo was on every page.

The problem was solved, but I found no pleasure in it.

>Printing something out of Thingiverse still solves the problem, as does buying something ready-made.

That's a good point. If my motorcycle has a broken spark plug, I won't create my own. I'll go to the store and buy a new one. I've solved the problem.

I could also take it to the mechanic and get it replaced there. Much like the Where's Waldo book, the problem has been solved for me.

>As for the writing, there are actual studies that writing by hand activates different parts of your brain than typing.

Doesn't matter, the final product is still your own work.

geir_isene6d ago

On this; I think we may just have to let go of pride & kudos and their connection to our identity.

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