Can You Really Put on Blinders If You Know There May Be Adverse Effects of Your Actions?

Nick Bergson-Shilcock of Recurse Center, Developing our position on AI (Emphasis mine): We chose at the outset to limit our focus to the personal and professional implications of LLMs on Recursers, since that’s what we’re knowledgeable about. You won’t find positions or pontification in this post on energy usage, misinformation, industry disruption, centralization of power, existential risk, the potential for job displacement, or responsible training data.

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Comparing Use of AI vs Learning to Code Has Nothing to Do With Knowledge

In New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code, Namanyay argues that StackOverflow would teach you something, while AI is all about speed. The graph Namanyay shared is this: Side note: Do you remember when StackOverflow was strongly associated with copy-paste-programming without understanding, and that Real Programmers™ read manuals and books instead?

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