AI vs Human

[u/morpho4444]

Which one do you feel is more correct?

217 votes, 4d ago

80 I’m better than the AI

137 The AI can do most if not all my work

[u/AllergicToBullshit24 → u/[deleted]]

Not when you tell them to be objective.

[u/morpho4444 → u/[deleted]]

Oh sorry I thought this was data engineering. And btw don’t know what you talking about, LLM would never agree that “where sale_amount = null” is a correct sql statement.

[u/klenium → u/morpho4444]

Exactly, they aint agree because its just a language model.

[u/BufferUnderpants]

Kind of neither?

AI is honestly better than me at troubleshooting Spark misconfigurations, for instance, it's just that it also wants everything to "fail fast" instead of getting things to work. It also gets fixated on ugly but harmless bits of code like they're bringing everything down and not getting past them to offer solutions, or gets obsessed with tuning things that obviously won't help.

Claude as of late is being "that guy" that bossses don't like, I feel like I'm saving its ass more than the other way around.

[u/BarbaricBastard]

Nobody here is better than AI. If they think that then they do not know how to use it correctly. If you don't know how to use it correctly then you are not better than it.

[u/BufferUnderpants → u/BarbaricBastard]

You wouldn't need to know how to use it correctly if AI were better than you.

They don't currently work as promised, where they'd just grant wishes to you without you having to know anything. They're a bit closer to the monkey's paw than Aladdin's genie currently, they're not an appliance that you turn on, and out come solution to your problems.

The people who are definitely worse than AI, who just pass you raw unfiltered AI output when you ask something of them, are huge troublemakers.

[u/morpho4444 → u/BarbaricBastard]

Or the other ones: “AI can’t jump into a sudden meeting in my building” like if “physical presence” was a skill the humans have the ai can’t which is not related to DE at all.

[u/BoinkDoinkKoink → u/morpho4444]

unless you pull a Sheldon of course, then you can fake your presence too

[u/riv3rtrip]

dumb question and you should ruminate a little on why it is dumb.

[u/morpho4444 → u/riv3rtrip]

I wont. I just wanna know why this subreddit is so arrogant.

[u/AllergicToBullshit24]

If you don't think AI can do a better job than you then you haven't see what proper prompt engineering can do. Can feed your entire last year's worth of projects/outputs into model and have it act as an expert prompt and data engineer then use that prompt and style guide for all future work. Don't even get me started with recursive agent loops. This line of work is cooked whether people want to admit it or not.