Shared by movq, a list of grievances—should I say?—on the use or abuse of AI. I am far from being a luddite, but I agree with all. These hit hard:
The issue that double-checking AI output is a painstaking process that takes a long time and a lot of discipline. AI tools use human language and I’ve observed many times that people have a hard time keeping up their “guards”; the output looks like it was written by an expert, which makes it much more “believable”. So, realistically, most people don’t verify the output and they resort to “lgtm”. We might even blindly trust that thing and call it “vibe coding”. How’s blindly trusting anything good?
Oh boy, I am seeing that almost daily.
There’s the (upcoming) brain drain. AI takes over the jobs of juniors. Hence no more juniors. Hence no more seniors – in a few years. You need to train people and you need to do that on real world projects, otherwise they don’t learn the skills that they need.
So much truth! This one made me sad, and worried. You, yes, you reading this, you know it is true.
llm rants tubes