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Because the AI isn't autonomous, and cannot vet it's own outputs. If an AI answers a question perfectly, I'll go with it. But if my boss fires me for no longer

by RIMR 1mo ago

Because the AI isn't autonomous, and cannot vet it's own outputs. If an AI answers a question perfectly, I'll go with it. But if my boss fires me for no longer being needed because of the AI, good luck to him and his new idiot employee.

ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago
If your response when someone asks a job-related question is to paste AI, then you're the one telling your boss that AI can do your job. Asking questions is part of the job. Answering questions is part of the job. Collaborating with other people is the most important part of the job. Some junior technical folks early in their career might bristle at this: "my job is to write this code I'm writing, and anything else is a distraction", or something along those lines. It's hard to internalize that your job is actually making the company successful, not yourself, and that means making other people successful. If you can't answer a human question from a colleague, as a human, then the natural conclusion is that you are unable or unwilling to do the job. Like, great, you can write (or generate) code, what about the other 90% of the job?
- ako 1mo ago
  I see it differently: if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer. Most business text does not benefit from a user spending time on phrasing it, it’s not literature.
  - ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago
    > if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer That's for their manager to judge. You can maybe share your opinion on the matter, and let them decide. Until then, collaboration is more important than your personal IC work, and usually more effective than 1 person working heads-down and another struggling. Newer devs invariably discover that the "write the code" part of the job is just a small part of being an engineer, and less value-added than collaboration. Big successes are achieved when you make others successful, rather than isolating yourself and focusing only on your own work and your own success.
    - ako 1mo ago
      This is not counter collaboration, collaboration can also benefit from the use of AI.
      - ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago
        AI is not a suitable substitute for collaboration – we are discussing the case of sending AI summaries (1 human asking, 1 LLM answering through a meat proxy), instead of collaboration between 2 humans

by RIMR 1mo ago

ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago

If your response when someone asks a job-related question is to paste AI, then you're the one telling your boss that AI can do your job. Asking questions is part of the job. Answering questions is part of the job. Collaborating with other people is the most important part of the job. Some junior technical folks early in their career might bristle at this: "my job is to write this code I'm writing, and anything else is a distraction", or something along those lines. It's hard to internalize that your job is actually making the company successful, not yourself, and that means making other people successful. If you can't answer a human question from a colleague, as a human, then the natural conclusion is that you are unable or unwilling to do the job. Like, great, you can write (or generate) code, what about the other 90% of the job?

ako 1mo ago
I see it differently: if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer. Most business text does not benefit from a user spending time on phrasing it, it’s not literature.
- ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago
  > if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer That's for their manager to judge. You can maybe share your opinion on the matter, and let them decide. Until then, collaboration is more important than your personal IC work, and usually more effective than 1 person working heads-down and another struggling. Newer devs invariably discover that the "write the code" part of the job is just a small part of being an engineer, and less value-added than collaboration. Big successes are achieved when you make others successful, rather than isolating yourself and focusing only on your own work and your own success.
  - ako 1mo ago
    This is not counter collaboration, collaboration can also benefit from the use of AI.
    - ImPostingOnHN 1mo ago
      AI is not a suitable substitute for collaboration – we are discussing the case of sending AI summaries (1 human asking, 1 LLM answering through a meat proxy), instead of collaboration between 2 humans