> anti-AI people think the advice and information you can get from a good model (if you know how to operate it well) is less valuable than the advice and information you can get from a book
Those people exist and they’re wrong.
More frequently, however, I find I’m judging the model less than its user. If I get an email that smells of AI, I ignore it. That’s partly because I have the luxury to do so. It’s largely because engaging has commonly proven fruitless.
You see a similar effect on HN. Plenty of people use AI to think through problems. But the comments that quote it directly are almost always trash.
"But the comments that quote it directly are almost always trash."
Because the output is almost always trash, and it takes re-doing the work and then claiming that it came from LLMs for it not to be.
These tools are being sold to me as similar to what a Jr engineer offers me, but that's not at all true because I would fire a Jr that came to me with such bullshit and needing such significant hand-holding so often as what I see coming out of an LLM.
Those people exist and they’re wrong.
More frequently, however, I find I’m judging the model less than its user. If I get an email that smells of AI, I ignore it. That’s partly because I have the luxury to do so. It’s largely because engaging has commonly proven fruitless.
You see a similar effect on HN. Plenty of people use AI to think through problems. But the comments that quote it directly are almost always trash.