jorge devlog #6: On AI assistance

from blog olano.dev, | ↗ original
I’m a programmer but I’m no tech enthusiast; I don’t think that innovation turned into consumer need is necessarily a form of progress. And I’m suspicious of over-hyped technology. So I’ve been rather hostile to the recent wave of Artificial Intelligence. I’m not against AI as a tool: it’s just a tool. It can be a beautiful construction, it can be useful to solve real problems. But it can also break things that aren’t broken and serve as an excuse to make things worse. As...