A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
I repeat myself but, and this might even sound elitist, but if you’re an academic, you will have exponentially greater use of AI than if you ain’t.
You get what you put. So if you put effort and know how to communicate and know coding and know what’s going on, you’re gonna have a better time than if you don’t. But still, that said, you have to be very careful because it is so comforting, humans are very susceptible to praise and flattery, we want to be lured in, we let ourselves be fooled, like a magic trick.
If you know it’s happening you have some defense, imagine all the people who don’t and get lost. but I suppose that’s the danger with anything really. Make sure you don’t get screwed over, as best you can. Sorry for rambling, I have a lot of thoughts on many matters, and I think it’s important that we talk about these things so we can figure it out together.
That’s how I feel right now and that’s that!
I tell folks to take what it tells you with a grain of salt because you can get it to agree with you no matter what, eventually. It will also confidently give you answers even if your question was vague or missing important specifications.
100%. And it’s dangerous as fuck. I am very aware, I dedicated my whole life to communicating through text, with computers, with humans, with myself, I studied philosophy and cognition and language and semiotics and computing and coding, so I’m at a tremendous advantage, and I have noticed that I have started talking a bit more like AI over the past few years.
Like, lie with dogs, get fleas.
Imagine if they decided that they will adjust the morality of the AI, to, let’s say, just be a little bit more favorable towards the concept of “white genocide” in South Africa, and the global effects you could see in sentiment. You think Facebook is bad? In ten years we are going to have a seriously big fucking problem with a handful of people truly controlling what people think. They already do, but this one is a game changer.
Sorry for rambling.
I work in IT so I know how important it is to be absolutely, 100% clear about what you are saying. Same is true for things like medicine, engineering, pilots, etc. Setting X to 0 vs 1 can make a big difference.