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Washing clothes by hand isn't as important as straining your mind to understand the issue without outside assistence and ready-made answers. Washing machine doesn't affect critical thinking abilities but mindlessly querying and believing LLMs might affect it negatively, but only if you use it that way. The whole point of those threads was that people won't carefully consider how to use LLMs responsibly. It's the same pattern as: "Well, king says so it must be true" "Well, I read it in a newspaper so it must be true" "Well, I saw it on TV so it must be true" "Well, I saw it on Facebook so it must be true" "Well, Claude told me so it must be true" You get the point. And this got more complex over time. Now it's literally telling you with a tone of authority and certainty, something that can be flat out wrong, and if you correct it, it will just appoligize and continue as if nothing. In other words, it's hallusinating. That's being improved though. Todays models do less of that, but still, I face with that issue daily. All that being said, it's been a very useful tool for me. But I'm willing to invest some time into figuring out how it really works, what are traps into using it and in what ways can it rotten my mind and consider that really carefully. Most people won't do that.

@VioletFlame The medal has two sides, right? Yes, I also think that people will get even lazier in their thinking if all they do is query LLM's for answers. But also, consider how easier it is to do the research into some field with LLM. For example, if you want to learn gardening, or coding, cooking, anything, you have a personal assistant that can guide you. I think you're a bit too focused on the negative and overlooking the positive. Again, TV's and smartphones can be used in positive and negative ways. You could use a smartphone to learn all kinds of things about the world, watch documentaries to expand your worldview, connect interneting people worldwide and have interesting discussions (like we do now ), etc. Or you could scroll TikTok the whole day, order Wendys burgers and cheetos and binge watch some TV show on it. You get the point. Having tools like AI burdens you with more epistemic responsibility to take. If you take it or not, it's all on you. What I fear is that most people won't. Even I'm in the process of learning how to use AI wisely, haven't fully figured out yet. Also, I think you greatly overestimate current LLM capabilities. It isn't replacing anyone for a long time, if ever. The whole point of this discussion is to get clear about what this technology really is, correct our expectation, and learn to use it in responsible ways because it isn't going anywhere. It's not a technology like Blockchain or NFT's that where hyped up for a year and nobody talks about them since then. Look into Cal Newport's work (on YouTube), he has a pretty realistic discussions around this topic.

@BlessedLion Thanks again 🙏🏻 I'll look into it.

As I'm thinking more about it, I can't come up with another industry that might be affected with LLM's much, other than computer programming and maybe education system.

The idea that a person with no technical expertise can vibe-code a CMS, Community Software, Figma or anything remotely similar in complexity, is just silly. You've to actually know what you are doing when you are using agents. Sure, anyone can vibe-code a todo list app or something simple like that, but he'll quickly run into issues. Coding agents are really useful in hands of experienced developers, not sure for anyone else outside that group.

What's your day-to-day diet like? Like for 80-90% of the times, what do you eat? I try to lose weight while building muscle and here's what I eat: protein pancakes (protein powder, banana, egg) chicken breast + rice / buckwheat eggs cottage cheese tuna salad some fruit That's it basically. 1900-2000 calories and 160g protein. And on the weekends I might switch and bring in some variety, but still stay in these caloric range. What about you?

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, all that makes sense in the construction industry. I think it will stay as LLM for a long time to come, so you should be safe. I think there aren't many industries that LLMs affect that much, except for maybe software and couple others. And even there, it affects mostly positively for experienced people. Aside to your work, do you use it for your personal life in some way? It's pretty useful when you are learning new things for example. One interesting usage that I've found was the following kind of questions: And since it has memory form all your past conversations, it might give you some answer that changes your perspective or gives you new insights.

@Stick Yes but only if you steam the vegetables.

I fear this will happen not only to soft. devs but most people across the board. I hope I'm wrong

@Lyubov Yes, same. Again, same for me. If I didn't know what I'm doing, it would all turn into a mess quickly. Opus 4.6 model got refined and does much much better job at coding for example. Recently it saved me a huge a amount of time, probably weeks, in one of the tasks I had which was about migrating an old design system to a newest version where they had breaking changes. Without Claude, I'd go through hell probably. All that being said, the only reason I was able to use it effectively was that I had years of manual experience. I think people who say that LLMs will replace employees, haven't actually done much work with the assistance of LLMs.

It will make them even lazier and depended on some chatbot.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVgNBb9kymA/?igsh=cjdsYWlreXc2anZi What could go wrong

Yesterday was a shitty day. The junk food that I ate the other day caused stomach issues and I didn't do much except for laying on my bed in struggle. Today I feel better.

@VioletFlame If that happens, not having ChatGPT is the last thing we'd worry about But yeah, humanity is getting very depended on thinking with LLMs. Me included. I'm in the process of learning how to balance independent vs LLM assisted thinking. Because it's very tempting when you've got some question to just ask Claude. But it's not responsible way of using mind for sure.

My workflow depends heaviliy on AI (Claude Opus 4.6), but it always needs proper guidance, reviewing each line it produces, often makes something I don't want and I'm guiding it to course-correct. Sometimes it just can't fix the issue, even when it sees the full context. That's when I step in manually and help it myself. It's a whole process where me and opus are both heavily invested. I'm not sure why are we discussing human replacement when it's so apparent that even best LLM models need human involvement and orchestration. Can LLMs literally replace you and do your job? No (depends on what you do) But it changes the workflow for sure. With the obvious downsides like the possibility of skill degradation, mind rotting, no more incentive for technical debth, etc. And it's not fun anymore. When I was coding in the past it was more adventurous, I felt I was advancing my skills daily and weekly. Now I just talk with a chatbot and review the code, and occasionally do debugging manually. Sometimes I wish we could go back. But on the other hand, it can super charge the learning process. LLMs can be used very effectively to assist your education. It doesn't replace books but supercharges them. When reading a book simultaniously I can chat with LLM about a topic I didnt fully understood in a book and get it cleared.

The trick that I use sometimes is that if you set phone orientation on landscape, you'll get desktop version formatting options. I use what I want and then switch back to portrait mode. Takes extra time but better then not having options at all.

@integral While all that being true in my experience as well, Antropic CEO's claims are still delusional. AI won't iteratively improve itself in 6-12 month time to the point of making developers obsolete. He is not going to replace his developers in 6-12 month times with opus. It can't just code C compiler and fully-fledged Figma clone why we sit and sip coffee. Still requires very active developer involvement. It's just that we don't manually type most of the code anymore.

If somebody told you yes, would you believe it? Some people who astral project claim to meet their deceased loved ones. I haven't done it so I can't verify.

You guys with your kangaroos and wild pigs, and I'm here eating chicken breast weeks in a row. I need to step up my meat game

Another good one, just dropped. Cal created a segment of his show called "AI Reality Check". He'll be doing it each week. We really want this kind of information now.

This is really far fetched man. So you are saying that some combination of opus agents can create a better version of Invision board? No, I don't think so.

Do you mean something akin to what Ken Wilber would call structures (egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric, integral)? You do not perceive structures as objects. They appear as patterns in how experience is organized: what you notice, what you ignore, what feels meaningful, what explanations your mind generates. But it isn't found in senses. They show up as automatic interpretations, conceptual frameworks, sense of identity, how complex your understanding of situations is. Do you percieve morality the same way? They have certain reality but are those ultimately true? Like, in all circumstances?

It's especially problematic when it comes to new hyped up techonologies that we don't really know how it all works under the hood (LLMs for example), and that makes us more gullible to their confidence. And giving authority away to confidence really re-shapes the worldview. For example, if you believed what he says that in 6-12 months software will write itself, it would affect your life decisions in drastic ways if you are related to software industry in some way. We should be careful in what we believe in. But as you said, amidst the flood of notifications and decesion fatigue people aren't used to doing that.

I really want to meet him in person and study at least couple weeks under his guidence while he's still around, I think it will be a very insightful experience for me. I really envy Americans who live there and can attend his workshops, like, one of the top reasons that I wanna get US Visa (not sure if that works out) is that I get to interact with Peter, not putting him on pedestal or anything, it's just so interesting to interact with a person who takes truth that seriously. The new book is very intriguing.

Some thoughts on this video: https://www.actualized.org/insights/more-ai-delusions My god, they bullshit us with such confidence and straight face. When what that Anthropic CEO said will definitely not happen, that in 6-12 months Claude will do perferct job at software development, will there be anyone that makes him accountable to that words? Or everyone just ignores it and allow him to bullshit us again with yet another 6-12 month fearmongering claims. And the fact that they straight up lie in the C compiler ad, is just crazy. I was more sympathetic towards that company, because I really like their tools, but this just makes me certain that I shouldn't believe anything that they're marketing so deceptively. It's a good example of how important it is to do independent research into a thing instead of just believing a marketing ad.