Technology

I think music is so much more than a tool.

Of course it is, I also listen to music other times when I don't treat it as a tool, but for pleasure and entertainment. But I also use it at times only as a tool, that's all.

So you don’t see any merit in current AI at all? Do you thin it will vanish like the blockchain fad?

I see plenty of merit in AI. AI has already been used to do really meaningful things for humans, such as in medicine, mathematics, etc, lots of stuff in the research fields and stuff.

But it's very important to remember that the more work we offload to robots, the worse we'll become at doing that work ourselves. Neural pathways deteriorate when not used. And I don't want to become an expert in code review, because I don't think that's fun. I want to remain an expert in producing code. And when AI does the reviewing part, too, what the fuck am I left with? Being some kind of DevOp, orchestrating the agents of my laptop? That's not fun for me.

Maybe in the future AI will actually be able to do quality code and quality software development methods the entire way from idea to production, but I want to code. I am a software engineer. It's what I was trained to do, and it's my craft.

It's like asking someone who is into pottery for a living and has a small business where they do everything by hand, to give that up in order to make cheap ceramic/porcelain plates with no ornamentation, no soul, in a factory. They wouldn't be interested. That's me.