While I agree with you - The whole grug brain thing is offensive. Because we have all been grug at some point.
This seems to miss the point. Being Grug is the endgame.
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But it sounds like with AI doctors did better overall, or that is how I read the first couple of lines. If that is true, I don't really see a problem here. Compilers have eroded my ability to write assembly, that is true. If compilers went away, I would get back up to speed in a few weeks.
You would get back up to speed in a few weeks. The guy who comes after you and never had formative years writing assembly would never get to the level you were at.
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I strongly disagree agents are for extroverts.
I do agree it’s definetly a tool category with a unique set of features and am not surprised it’s offputting to some. But it’s appeal is definetly clear to me as an introvert.
For me LLM:s are just a computer interface you can program using natural language.
I think I’m slightly ADD. I love coding _interesting_ things but boring tasks cause extreme discomfort.
Now - I can offload the most boring task to LLM and spend my mental energy on the interesting stuff!
It’s a great time to be a software engineer!
It's interesting that every task in the world is boring to somebody, which means nothing left in the world will be done by those interested in it, because somebody will gladly shotgun it with an AI tool.
> For some reason AI seems to bring out articles that seem to fundamentally lack curiosity - opting instead for gleeful mockery and scorn
I think its broader to all tech. It all started in 2016 after it was deemed that tech, especially social media, had helped sway the election. Since then a lot of things became political that weren't in the past and tech got swept up w/ that. And unfortunately AI has its haters despite the fact that it's objectively the fastest growing most exciting technology in the last 50 years. Instead they're dissecting some CEOs shitposts.
Fast forward to today, pretty much everything is political. Take this banger from NY Times:
> Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” Mr. Kennedy asked.
> He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.
No self-awareness.
Why should the excitement of a technology have anything to do with my critical view of it? Are we toddlers playing with toys, or are we trying to make a better world here?
WhyOhWhyQ commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
Sure. Here is the fanfiction book I've been using LLMs to help me write. Helps a lot with improving prose and identifying plot holes. It's much better then a rubber duck for talking out how to improve a chapter and write plausible story arcs. It's not great at word smithing, but I find it errs on the side of too many similies and metaphors, so I just delete some of them as I copy the suggestions over into my draft.
(I'm looking at the paragraph after FORWARD.) You should cut down on the sentences with commas. The flow stops and starts way too often.
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WhyOhWhyQ commented on The blissful Zen of a good side project joshcollinsworth.com/blog... · Posted by u/ingve
It's an interesting read. I'm in the complete opposite camp. I can't pick up a game controller for more than 5 minutes without feeling like I'm wasting time.
This has lead to many, many side projects throughout the years, which I tend to like a zen garden[1]. Pruning, refining, improving, and sometimes rewriting.
As soon as I work out the game mechanics of any game, I just see it as just content now, and there is nothing holding me back to play any longer. Same with watching TV shows or movies, I lose interest pretty quickly and feel an urge to create something.
I've always been very in tune with time, our lack of it, and felt like consumption is a waste of time.
That said I believe creativity is hormonal (that is only my personal belief, unproven). It comes and goes. Some days I can't stop creating, somedays I want netflix and chill. But that's 10 days cycle of sorts, 10 days on, 10 days off.
Depending on where you live, it's perfectly normal that due to current events, or a personal loss in your life, etc. you might not feel the creative bug tickling you. The creative hormone might be totally wiped by your current environment or predicament; tiredness, anger, stress, all play into it.
After all, since our early days in the caves, drawing on walls, Humans wouldn't do so unless they had safety, a full belly, and a warm fire. A place to call home. Creative time needs conditions to be filled.
This is how I am except with nostalgia content, which I cannot see as just content.
It is however impossible for me to play the latest games or watch the latest shows for 10 minutes without feeling like my time is being wasted.
There are various ways to turn creativity into money, even without publishing any kind of artwork. Basically all skilled jobs and entrepreneurial enterprises require creativity. And if you do have an artwork, you can still seek profit through acclaim, even without copyright: interviews, public appearances. Artists once had patrons - but that tends to put aristocrats in control of art.
So money will motivate a lot of the creativity that goes on.
Meanwhile, if you dabble in some kind of art or craft while working in a factory to make ends meet, that kind of limits you to dabbling, because you'll have no time to do it properly. Money also buys equipment and helpers, sometimes useful.
On the other hand, yes, it ruins the art. There's a 10cc song about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_for_Art%27s_Sake_(song)
Though, this reminds me of an interesting aside: the origin of the phrase "art for art's sake" was not about money, but about aesthetics. It meant something like "stop pushing opinions, just show me a painting".
All mediums for creativity are not equivalent. We're killing off the good ones and replacing them with bad ones.
> The best minds of my generation
I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”.
I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.
That we keep putting greedy assholes on a “best minds” pedestal due to their ability to exploit others for personal profit is part of the problem.
Thank you person. You have improved my day.
I really think this argument is baseless, however, because there's absolutely no reason to think if Chinese corporations make some paradigm shifting advancement in AI then American corporations won't quickly copy it, just as Chinese corporations VERY quickly caught up to GPT 3. Is less than 1 year of economic advantage really worth the permanent erasure of norms like copyright and privacy?