alt Hacker NewsNot so much atrophy as apathy.
I've worked with people who will look at code they don't understand, say "llm says this", and express zero intention of learning something. Might even push back. Be proud of their ignorance.
It's like, why even review that PR in the first place if you don't even know what you're working with?
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oremj • yesterday at 6:21 PM
Is this the same subset of people who copy/paste code directly from stack overflow without understanding ? I’m not sure this is a new problem.
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RexM • yesterday at 6:17 PM
It’s a lot like someone bragging that they’re bad at math tossing around equations.
monkpit • yesterday at 6:09 PM
If I wanted to know what the LLM says, I would have asked it myself, thanks…
redanddead • yesterday at 6:12 PM
What is it in the broader culture that's causing this?
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I cringed when I saw a dev literally copy and paste an AI's response to a concern. The concern was one that had layers and implications to it, but instead of getting an answer as to why it was done a certain way and to allay any potential issues, that dev got a two paragraph lecture on how something worked on the surface of it, wrapped in em dashes and joviality.
A good dev would've read deeper into the concern and maybe noticed potential flaws, and if he had his own doubts about what the concern was about, would have asked for more clarification. Not just feed a concern into AI and fling it back. Like please, in this day and age of AI, have the benefit of the doubt that someone with a concern would have checked with AI himself if he had any doubts of his own concern...