alt Hacker Newsthinking is vital. just like homework at school to improve your thinking. final output can be totally ignored .
one could argue that thinking itself would be not needed in future. But we are not there. I would love that future though. thinking is suffering. if ai can think for us then it would eliminate suffering.
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But you can't successfully outsource all of "thinking" to a LLM today(or, likely, ever), so this is mostly a strawman.
Thinking isn't Boolean either. A LLM let's you not think about, say, rust lifetimes, as an example. You'll still need to think about other things.
I'm not abandoning all thinking, I just change what things I think about. Some things I delegate thinking about(like rust lifetime syntax, to stick with my example), which frees up time to think about other, more interesting things, like application design, or architecture!
I don't see how that would be a good future... how is thinking suffering?
> thinking is suffering
then thinking is also joy and happiness :)
Something that only thinks of the things thought before isn't much of a tinker now is it?
What are we without thinking? What’s the point of our existence in that case? Just being a biological bag of soup consuming resources?
In fact, thinking is what makes humans interesting. What separates us from random bacteria if we don’t think anymore?