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When using AI to help out I sometimes think of a fitting analogy to represent how it impacts the work.

For hundreds of years nails have worked to construct things. And then someone invented the screw.
Those with hammer experience would say it's stupid. A nail takes 5 hammer blows to go all the way in. With a screw it takes 10 hammer blows for it to go all the way in.

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  • 0
    and then the factories came...
  • 3
    But, Nails are still used and in high use? So your analogy is not great
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    The overlap between the use-cases of nails and screws ends at fixing pictures to the wall. If you understand the things the LLM creates and you're supposed to review as well as you understand handywork, I'm not surprised that you think its output is good.
  • 0
    If LLMs scraped human knowledge before screws were widely used and you asked it how to fix a painting to a wall it would instruct you to use nails
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