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I think these are actually valid examples, albeit ones that come with a really big caveat; you're using AI in place of a skill that you really should be learning for yourself. As an autistic IT person, I get the struggle of communicating with non-technical and neurotypical people, especially clients who you have to be extra careful with. But the reality is, you can't always do all your communication by email. If you always rely on the AI to correct your tone or simplify your language, you're choosing not to build an essential skill that is every bit as important to doing your job well as it is to know how to correctly configure an ACL on a Cisco managed switch.
That said, I can also see how relying on the AI at first can be a helpful learning tool as you build those skills. There's certainly an argument that by using tools, but paying attention to the output of those tools, you build those skills for yourself. Learning by example works. I think used in that way, there's potentially real value there.
Which is kind of the broader story with Gen AI overall. It's not that it can never be useful; it's that, at best, it can only ever aspire to "useful." No one, yet, has demonstrated any ability to make AI "essential" and the idea that we should be investing hundreds of billions of dollars into a technology that is, on its best days, mildly useful, is sheer fucking lunacy.
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This was an interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Noted, I'll be giving that a proper read after work. Thank you.
Edit to add: Yeah, that pretty much mirrors my own experiences of using AI as a coding aid. Even when I was learning a new language, I found that my comprehension of the material very quickly outstripped whatever ChatGPT could provide. I'd much rather understand what I'm building because I built it myself. A lot of the time, when you use a solution someone else provided you don't find out until much later how badly that solution held you back because it wasn't actually the best way to tackle the problem.
This is such a good example of how it AI/LLMs/whatever are being used as a crutch that is far more impactful than using a spellchecker. A spell checker catches typos or helps with unfamiliar words, but doesn't replace the underlying skill of communicating to your audience.