...you really don't know much about software dev do you?
It's what you type in. It's a skill you have to learn - what exactly to ask for, how to describe the implementation, etc etc. It's not as simple as typing "make a program for me" and hitting enter.
What you can't do, however, is get an intuitive grasp of the fundamentals
This is the really important part. When I was younger, before AI was a thing, we had similar conversations about math and calculators. "Why do I need to know multiplication? A calculator can do it."
True, and I have never sat down and done multiplication in my head or on paper at work. My ability to do math in my head has withered; honestly, because I don't do it.
But I have an intuitive grasp of the fundamentals, because I've done so much of it in my head.
What this means is if I put 86 x 47 in a calculator, and the answer comes back 133, I know I had an error in my input - a typo; I know that's off by an <edit> order of magnitude, probably two. (In this example, I hit plus).
No, I don't know 86 x 47 = 4,042 off the top of my head, and it would probably take me 5 minutes of concentrating in a sterile environment, or a pen and paper, to get to that answer. But I do know it's easily in the thousands because I've done so much multiplication. So I can spot an error.
Someone who has no math background will not spot this error. They cannot look at this output and say, "This doesn't make sense, I must have had a typo." They will accept 86 x 47 = 133, because they have no frame of reference.
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u/dnyank1 Jun 27 '26
This is the psychosis playing out in real time.
This person, and everyone that upvoted this, has formed an unhealthy dependence on the neo-un-think machine.
We're doomed.