the way nobody seems to bother to write anything without relying on LLMs any more is really quite scary. writing is thinking. I know it's brutally difficult, but do you really want to surrender your intellect? do you really want to make that obvious to everyone? fucking suicidal
@hikari I mean, I won't surrender my intellect. But that comes at the cost that I work at my own pace, as my bandwidth permits. And a lot of times, that means what I want to do- writing, coding, etc- Doesn't Get Done.
And while I constantly bitch about the state of affairs, I'm ultimately Okay With That Tradeoff.
@cr1901 Yeah, I have a lot of software that needs to exist for reasons other than sharpening my intellect, and suddenly I am faced with the choice of learning the things I would need to learn to write it, or delegating to a bot, and I am finding, to my surprise, that I am often willing to choose the latter.
I don't think writing is something I can delegate, though. If I delegate writing to a bot, it writes what it wants (or "wants") to express, not what I do, and in its voice. It's like asking someone to eat a delicious meal for me, or go to the bathroom for me.
"Oh, living? The servants will do that for us."
@cr1901 That is totally a legitimate choice!
@xentrac At least you understand the value of bootstrapping, which is more than I can say about most ppl who use the comprehension laundering machine :P.
@cr1901 Yeah, but one of the things I want to exist is platforms that aren't such a pain to bootstrap on. And it turns out that the bots are passable at basic Verilog, and I am not.
@cr1901 I anticipate a difficult debugging process that will force me to learn anyway. Too bad the bots can't tell me where my FPGA board went
@xentrac > Yeah, but one of the things I want to exist is platforms that aren't such a pain to bootstrap on
That is by and large society's failure. But I don't think I have bandwidth to elaborate today without being mean.
@cr1901 I can't disagree.
Mental Health, AI
@xentrac > that I am often willing to choose the latter.
I'm not willing to make that choice, so nothing gets done until I have motivation to push through the parts I thought would be easy and/or fun but were neither.
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