Same here. I just want to write code myself. AI is great for routine tasks, but the rest is mine.

This came out of my own experience building and releasing an iOS application. AI genuinely helped with many things during development, but I realised that the parts I enjoy most — architecture, problem solving, and building systems — are exactly the parts I don’t want to delegate.

These days, AI companies don’t even pretend anymore.

LLMs can draw (play music, write books), but they imitate, not create.

what things create?

From what I understand from physics, matters are there, nothing can be created. A vague memory of quantum physics hints matters out of vacuum, but my affirmation of that thought is less firm than the classic preservation laws.

AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy. But it absolutely could affect younger people who are still learning and building fundamentals.

That raises a pretty serious question about regulating AI usage in education, and it’s surprising how little attention that discussion still gets.

Speaking for myself, I feel a difference if I stop using AI for a week and just rely on regular web searches. And I have a fair amount of professional experience

Also, speaking for academia, AI is basically all we talk about now when it comes to curriculum and instruction. That's not to say that we only rely on AI, or something like that, but we talk a lot about how to get basically anything done now. It's the biggest learning experience we've ever had as instructors, and I suspect we'll be trying to figure it out for a long time to come.

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

It doesn't really read that way, more like we should be aware of how using LLMs could affect a child in an educational environment.

yeah, I've found that as i get older (especially after having kids) it gets harder to keep your edge. AI is making it easier to do things, but its making it harder to stay sharp.

I feel like its akin to an addiction, you start using it and its amazing, then you need to use it more to get the same level of performance... eventually (I'm expecting) you're dependent on it just to function in your role.

most already established professionals are lazy

>AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy.

Lol, that's already a lazy take.

We haven't even discussed as a society what might go wrong with LLMs, and we're already seeing what is going wrong. That's how hard we failed as a society.

What does "discuss as a society" mean? Pass regulations? Religious doctrine? Warfare?

Maybe not sneaking huge concessions to AI in omnibus bills would be a start.

Not getting teachers in trouble when they can clearly tell their students are submitting AI essays.

But we're still just letting kids use their phone in class, and our lawmakers are just learning what Facebook is. AI is going to "happen" to us, we are not serious enough to discuss it.

I think that is the role speculative fiction, like sci-fi, takes.

As Asimov and Roddenberry envisioned it, yes. Certainly not as the drivel that carries the sci-fi label today.

Soon, cheaper models will be called junior developers.

no because they dont have the same level of responsibility, care, or ability to learn. They do not fulfill the need of a beginner in the field, though they can output code. I'd argue that a junior is more than that

Maybe I didn't express myself very well, but I meant that the juniors will return.

This is also what I'm expecting. The change to usage-based billing may significantly change how much it costs to build apps.

I don’t really vibe code either. I work a 9-to-5 and still shipped my own app to the App Store. Not sure why I’d want to speed things up if it takes away the enjoyment.

And the bubble just keeps growing!

Unfortunately, even AI-generated “bullshitting” still needs to be double-checked. I don’t really see how it saves time.

For me, it’s meditation — it really helps me recover.