larsfaye

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by larsfaye 8d ago
>And the fact that I'm a generalist is really playing to my strength for the first time I was just speaking with my wife about this a few days ago, that I am actually happy that I didn't specialize in one specific discipline, o
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by larsfaye 8d ago
> It's time to reskill for AI. I'm just curious, what do you think that looks like for you and for others? AI is not so much a skill as it is an interface, and one that is quite possibly one of the easiest to use that we'v
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by larsfaye 22d ago
> The long term impact of AI on society is exclusively a net positive if utilised in the correct way. Hi, I'm Earth, have we met?
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by larsfaye 23d ago
This is EXACTLY how I am working with these tools, you summarized everything about why I use this approach perfectly. Zed + OpenCode + Mimo/GLM/Kimi models are incredible. I haven't touched a "frontier model" for mo
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by larsfaye 23d ago
>I am glad that I live far away from the effects Are you not on planet earth? Unless you're on Mars, you're not far away from any effects.
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by larsfaye 23d ago
I originally found the paper through this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUh0OO6Kmo The video seemed to indicate it was a study they ran (she refers to the examples as "our subjects were two of twenty four par
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by larsfaye 23d ago
It's basically laid out in the article: the reason that you are able to gain so much from LLMs is because of your decades of experience that predated their existence. Ability begets ability, but if that ability doesn't take root,
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by larsfaye 23d ago
I posted this elsewhere, but that story has a lot more nuance. Plato (who actually wrote these quotes, because Socrates only spoke) wasn't against just "writing" in a general sense, or that he felt it was going to hold humani
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by larsfaye 23d ago
May I ask how many years experience you have?
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by larsfaye 23d ago
The end result is a total and complete reliance on AI providers. It's not really a secret; that's why I started the article with the direct quote from Altman. They would love to see a world where nobody is able to do any type of d
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Plato wasn't against just "writing" in a general sense, or that he felt it was going to hold humanity back. He was against treatises and felt that someone could "memorize facts" without having to actually think abou
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by larsfaye 23d ago
That's because the institutional knowledge was passed along through the act of coding. Skills that I learned in Assembly and FORTRAN are applicable to even modern programming languages...but not to "natural language."
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Exactly the type of usage I would hope to see advocated for in the future. As I wrote, when leveraged with Socratic methods and a sort of "interactive documentation", they can really boost one's understanding. Of course, this
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Literally all those skills are the result of decades of friction, challenge, and deep domain knowledge...all of which are circumvented when LLMs are utilized early in the process. CAD is also useless to Mechanical and Electrical engineers w
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Curiosity is really key, and I find that LLMs diminish curiosity in people that might otherwise have it because the allure of the answer is often a lot stronger than the allure of the friction. I guess that's just the distilling of the
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Do you think LLMs and compilers have a lot of overlap?
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Math skills are at their lowest point ever in modern society, and many are still advocating for the reduction in reliance on calculators for this reason. https://ivyleaguecenter.org/2024/03/12/over-reliance-on
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Could be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that.
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by larsfaye 23d ago
Actually, they have for a large majority of the population. And fun fact: that debate is still going on, and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) enacted a rule prohibiting calculator use in AMC. https://ivyleaguecenter.
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by larsfaye 23d ago
> I don't know how you teach that without coding That's the neat part: you don't! Even Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, who's as AI pilled as they come and doesn't read code any longer, says that junior devel
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Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)
566 points by larsfaye 23d ago|545 comments
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by larsfaye 1mo ago
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" - Winnie the Pooh
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by larsfaye 2mo ago
The extended title is more like: "AI Coding will Prevent Expertise if We Continue To Focus on Code Generation rather than Socratic and Educational Workflow Design" ...but I had to compress it for brevity! The points and studies I
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AI Coding will Prevent Expertise – The need for friction in skill formation(larsfaye.com)
4 points by larsfaye 2mo ago|6 comments
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by larsfaye 2mo ago
Yeah...I know I should be massively impressed, and I am to a degree, but isn't this what we should expect? LLMs can pick up on patterns that no human can see. In that sense, they really are a type of "search engine", but I us
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by larsfaye 2mo ago
Correctamundo. That's EXACTLY what I just wrote about. And how we'll create the next generation of people who know how to evaluate responses when we're creating a generation of people who are increasingly reliant on LLMs to d
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AI Coding Will Prevent Expertise(larsfaye.com)
6 points by larsfaye 2mo ago|1 comments
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by larsfaye 3mo ago
Uh, he's saying it because the kid is overly confident and acting as if he knows Williams' life because he saw a painting and drew a bunch of conclusions, so he was providing a life lesson to realize that experience provides a lev
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by larsfaye 3mo ago
I actually agree with you; I definitely feel I'm able to use LLMs to learn and explore concepts, but I've always been a self-taught and highly motivated person in the first place. Everything technical that I know, I know because I
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by larsfaye 3mo ago
Oh ho ho....looks like I'll need to update my essay! The evidence is mounting higher and higher. https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap

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