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I think the technology is cool and holds a lot of promise in certain niches. I've been into it since 2019 and learned a lot just watching it evolve.
That said, I'm skeptical and I think some folks rely on it too much. I work with someone who just copy/pastes Claude on every response. You have to do your own thinking and you have to double check everything it outputs. It follows direction, but it doesn't hesitate to make incorrect assumptions and inferences, and often the things you tell it isn't what it does.
I saw an AI guy explaining some prompt technique where you tell the AI to ask questions until it is 95% certain what you want it to do, but it doesn't have certainty and it can't achieve 95% of something it doesn't have, so it asks questions — sometimes pointless ones — until it has performed the ceremony of achieving 95% certainty. And I suppose maybe that that ceremony does help in some cases, but it's not doing what you tell it to do.
AI has a lot to offer. Sometimes when I ask it to write code, it does so using libraries and annotations I wasn't aware existed. I learn about things that way. It writes cleaner code faster than I do because it doesn't hesitate and overthink. But everyone knows about the hallucination issues. And you have to make your instructions as narrowly scoped and unambiguous as possible — approaching the complexity of code.
I get frustrated because I am a believer in AI, but I'm surrounded by people who don't seem to know how to use it appropriately and it's frustrating. Skepticism and critical thinking is crucial to successful use of AI, otherwise you're going to be caught with your pants down, having relied on it to do your thinking for you, and suddenly you realize you don't understand the very thing you've supposedly done.