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@ZeldaStar Me too, I'm going through all the episodes. They are very lengthy though, but very thoroughly researched. Good stuff.

@Natasha Tori Maru Nice, that's some creative way of using AI for sure, kudos Oh really? That sucks. I assume your job involves lots and lots of communicating, and that comes with the burden of dealing with egos for sure. I think people in general don't like to be questioned, but especially in corporate environments, where their salary is at stake, it's more of a threat survival-wise. But any leadership / managerial role will require WHY questions to get shit done. Yeah, in other words soft skills, which many people suck at, because "soft skills" basically get developed when you introspect, self-reflect and all the good stuff we love here 😆 It doesn't come naturally, and that's why it's hard to relate to coworkers sometimes, at least for me. Yeah, I think people are sensitive to punctuation as well, never mind words.

@YIDIRYIDIR Sure, I use it mostly for coding and correct prompt and context is crucial for it to do what I want. Yes it's not that AI is a problem per se. It's peoples whole approach towards life. But it shows up strakly when you query an LLM and just take whatever it tells you at face value.

@Ramasta9 My condolences brother, stay strong for your family and yourself. I've lost father 1.5 years ago unexpectadly and as terrible of an experience it was, it made me stronger in ways that I was not expecting. And made me realize that I won't be here forever either.

Did you have a history with gambling in the past or was this a new thing for you? My friend has a gambling addiction and he lost so many things over it. I've also dealth with some addictions and it's tough man, when you just sabotage yourself even though you know it's not healthy for you. Anyways, I'm sure you'll make it all back, good luck 💪

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.

@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.