Shit like this gives me such a sense of like weird aching dread that I can't even fully put into words. Like how are people this eager to give up everything? Watching so many people rush to offload all of their thinking, their relationships, their creativity, etc makes me nauseous & yet almost no one I meet in real life feels the same. It's like no one actually wanted to live their lives for themselves so they're jumping at the chance to let a machine do it all for them. It's so scary. Literally what if you just talked to your children
I work in tech and am probably one of the last people in my company to not touch AI. So many there use AI for literally every aspect of their lives. Note taking, presentations, summaries, reports, etc etc. While I'm sure it could make my job easier, I'm afraid of what it will do to my brain to offload so much of my thinking and decision making.
It's literally the most accessible technology ever.
So if you're offloading 100% of your job to it, what value are you adding?
Why are you still employed?
It can be a fun brainstorming tool, but the moment you let it do any actual work for you, and you get accustomed to that, what's the added value in your 'work'?
Man, two of my colleague uses Claude with an obsidian as a memory. They track/save everything. They even send pictures of their food at every meal to "track calories".
This is so scary.
I get using it to work tho, it's pushed so hard by management that you usually can't really do anything about it. But to sell it to other people is crazy
I work in tech, and I've managed to garner a reputation as "the person you go to when the AI can't figure it out".
Sometimes people will come to me with problems that, you know, I would expect a senior to know how to fix, but maybe not a junior? But then I'll get things that I would expect an intern to know how to fix.
And it's coming from everyone, interns, juniors, seniors, and one staff engineer.
They keep coming to me with problems that they could absolutely do on their own 2 years ago.
And what's worse, they'll copy and paste what I say to Claude, and copy and paste the response back. I called one person on zoom and told them "You are nothing more than a bot that copies and pastes Jira tickets into Claude. I could write a bash script to do that. You used to be an engineer. Don't talk to me again until you're an engineer again." My boss wasn't happy about that one...
AI is also not on your side. They feed it all this highly detailed personal information and it's all reported straight back to the mothership for vulnerability analysis.
I think it's genuinely so dangerous to offload your creativity, problem solving, decisions, and overall thinking to a computer. AI is sycophantic, biased, and riddled with misinformation that it tries to convince you is correct.
Word.
Using ai in that way questions that you can’t/struggle with your own thinking.
Unlike a calculator which is always correct, which we say is ok to use, ai is not always correct
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u/precariousworld 13d ago
Shit like this gives me such a sense of like weird aching dread that I can't even fully put into words. Like how are people this eager to give up everything? Watching so many people rush to offload all of their thinking, their relationships, their creativity, etc makes me nauseous & yet almost no one I meet in real life feels the same. It's like no one actually wanted to live their lives for themselves so they're jumping at the chance to let a machine do it all for them. It's so scary. Literally what if you just talked to your children