I honestly share a lot of the same thoughts and I now feel dumber the more i use AI to build out things for me. It's made me lazy tbh. And sadly, it also helps me do the things at my job faster and "better", but only because "better" works since "good enough" is all that's needed. I get pretty lost if I think about it too deeply...
That said, in response to this:
> I am terrified that all the effort and time I spend learning it will become obsolete in the future
I am of the belief that there's no way that effort and time that goes into learning something like Rust will be wasted. You'll learn stuff and gather a sense for things that might not concretely be applied, but will be helpful when it comes to reasoning about whatever comes next language wise. Learning often is about the journey and not just the destination. I think it'd still be worth it.
Or at least ... that's what I tell myself now as I try to learn Zig.
> I don't like it but I don't like my work either.
man. this actually seems so profound to me. I feel the same way overall as far as personal vs. work projects and AI use, but this wording hits it on the nose.
Yeah, my life is gonna be a hell lot better if I don’t have to work. This is the 3rd day of my first vacation of the year and I already feel a bit better.
Of course the more into a job the less flexible the vacations become. I probably don’t want to be a staff engineer or a lead for that reason. A senior engineer is the best thing in the engineering world, if you don’t like the job.
I've reached a similar conclusion, though not by targetting technology specifically. Rather, I got into the habit of asking myself "Does X enhance my life in some way?"
It's interesting what this simple question can uncover.
Randomly stumbled upon this yesterday when I learned that there is a Goblins 5 (released 2023) and it was built using AGS and it’s playable using ScummVM!
Funny timing. I’ve been building an LSP for a niche DSL I use at work. I’ve been using tree-sitter to build out the AST of sorts for the LSP functions, but just yesterday it dawned on me that the syntax highlighting my LSP does is all just TS queries and encoding them properly for the protocol. So I was looking into if that can be done in the vscode extension that provides the LSP hookup instead. Kinda nice that the same tree-sitter grammar can be used across the extension and LSP, even tho they’re in different languages.
When I saw the trailer in my YouTube feed I immediately thought it was an ad for those trash mobile games. Watching it didn’t really change my opinion either. I don’t actually want that to come across in a disparaging way - but it was just the vibes it gave off.
I’d save a lot of time from not choosing to smugly telling the AI how wrong it was just for my own reassurances that at least for now I’m still more useful than it is.
Jokes aside, my English is passable and I'm fine with it when writing comments but I'm very aware that some of it doesn't sound native due to me, well, not being native speaker.
I use AI to make it sound more fluent when writing for my blog.
As long as your bullet points+prompt are shorter than the output, couldn't you post that instead? The only time I think an LLM might be ethically acceptable for something a human has to read is if you ask it to make it shorter.
Well, actually, what if my own words make me come across as a raging pedantic asshole, you feckless moron!? I don't actually think you're a feckless moron, but sometimes I'll get emotional about this or that, and run my words through an LLM to reword it so that "it's not assholey, it's nice". I may know better than to use the phrase "well actually" seriously these days, but when the point is effective communication, yeah I don't want my readers to be put off by AI-isms, but I also don't want them to get put off by my words being assholey or condescending or too snarky or smug or any number of things that detract from my point. And fwiw, I didn't run this comment through an LLM.
It is a fun bootstrapping problem. How do you firewall enough dedicated resources to stand up your infrastructure if you dogfood your own product. Probably insidiously easy to have a dependency on the production service.
That said, in response to this:
> I am terrified that all the effort and time I spend learning it will become obsolete in the future
I am of the belief that there's no way that effort and time that goes into learning something like Rust will be wasted. You'll learn stuff and gather a sense for things that might not concretely be applied, but will be helpful when it comes to reasoning about whatever comes next language wise. Learning often is about the journey and not just the destination. I think it'd still be worth it.
Or at least ... that's what I tell myself now as I try to learn Zig.