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squarefoot • today at 8:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

AI let us conquer some squares in the game, but many others are still there: the software/game/picture ... you make is the result of your prompt which reflects your personality and creativity, it's where the "man bites dog" happens, whether the user or the machine made it, a carbon brain still thinks about it. Nobody complains about the vast majority of programmers not being able anymore to optimize their code by hand editing .asm sources produced by a compiler, just like nobody does if they can't place a bodge wire on a pcb to correct a bug, or for that matter doctors not being able to prepare penicillin at home or astronomers build their own lenses and telescopes. We moved forward; what makes all of this valuable is the ability to recognize the squares that follow in order to conquer them.


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djdjdkfori38 • today at 9:50 AM

I wouldn’t discount the need for craft and deep knowledge in order to make advances — I don’t think bringing our own take on man bites dog will get us the hard yards