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Not that this helps just an aside:

If this is iOS on one of the recent releases there is at least one apple bug I know of that causes this.

But it could also just be the youtube app :)

Kids preferring the touch screen seems more and more like letting kids in a typing class continue to hunt and peck rather than go through the work to learn a method that is faster and will ultimately benefit them by making their life easier.

I might change my mind on this later but right now I'm having a hard time seeing it any other way.

Thanks! I can't believe I didn't know how easy this is!

I went through the same cycle as well.

I think it's going to be an incredibly common, maybe universal cycle people will go through working with AI until they realize it doesn't work long term.

My experience is the AI has somehow thrown discipline and accountability out the door.

Folks break everything all the time and looking at their PRs and messages are clearly just having the AI respond to everything for them and actually have no idea what they're doing.

And then other people doing the same thing approve their work (presumably not reading or understanding any of it) because then the other person will do the same for theirs.

Hopefully my experience is an anomaly though :)

It's the stereotypical example of AI in my experience. I.e it's not this it's that.

probably a naive question but then would we expect companies not using it to lose market share to competitors that are using it?

Whether this ends up being replicated or not, I love the classic gym bro supplement being studied for its potential benefits to the brain.

What a time to be alive

I agree. Imo the red flags start when glancing at the section headings (before I started to read the content)

I haven't tried this with a score but I have a simple skill with some examples of PR description changes and good PR descriptions I'd previously wrote and I just run it on the description.

It does cost more but I haven't tried cheaper models to see if they can get the same results. Curious if anyone else has.

I've never thought about it this way before but this definitely mirrors my experience

Not to be pedantic and apologies if this is what you meant but my experience has been enforcement of that policy being the problem.

Will be interesting to see if / when enforcement happens given management is currently being pushed to encourage AI use

I wonder if there's research on short form but educational content or if that's fundamentally impossible.

For example I remember reading a lot of science magazines / articles growing up (granted popsci but for a kid it still teaches some things) and as I grew up things like the Economist.

Similarly I also played games like math blaster as a kid and have realized I need to intentionally provide games like this to my kids that ideally teach something (the bar being greater than zero learning) rather than playing one of those infinite running games or whatever.

I think we're probably talking about the exact same thing but am curious where content vs. short form media is.

Thanks for sharing :)

Never worked with it myself but I've always heard the people who do describe it as Unreal c++ because to them it's completely different than regular c++ and this must be one of the reasons why

+1

I like the alcohol comparison it's interesting in how accurate it is and yet society does it.

I also think it's obvious your comparisons of parents limiting time of things like this in the 90s is not apples to apples.

Being the person to start a new trend (in your local bubble) is non-trivial and hard to explain to a child growing up around nearly all their peers having access.

Doubly so if it's something that (I think science supports this?) is far more addicting than it was in the past.

I'm not saying folks get a free pass but I'm not sure we had a global drug crisis that 90% of the population was participating in before which from your analogy is what's happening.

Thanks again for the alcohol comparison I'm going to phrase it like that in my head to hopefully get all of my brain on board with the seriousness of the topic for my kids :)

Sorry for the ignorance but does GLP-1 fix all the nutrition / hyper-processed components of the food or is the implication here someone's weight is (making up a number) 90% of the negative effects.

Thanks for the reply :)

My personal vice is junk food. I wish they banned junk food. I'm not sure how the law would work but it would be objectively better for me as a human if they did.

(This is completely disregarding how practical such a ban would be)

I sadly have to agree with you. I had a 30+ year orthopedic surgeon confidently tell me my ACL wasn't torn.

Two years later when I got it fixed the new surgeon said there was nothing left of the old one on the MRI so it must have been torn 1.5-2+ years ago.

On the other hand, to be fair to doctors, I had a phase of looking into supplements and learned the hard lesson that you really need to dig into the research or find a very trusted source to have any idea of what's real because I definitely thought for a bit a few were useful that were definitely not :)

And also to be fair to doctors I have family members who are the "never wrong" types and are always talking about whatever doctor of the day is wrong about what they need.

My current opinion is using LLMs for this, in regards to it informing or misinforming, is no different than most other things. For some people this will be valuable and potentially dramatically help them, and for others it might serve to send them further down roads of misinformation / conspiracies.

I guess I ultimately think this is a good thing because people capable of informing themselves will be able to do so more effectively and, sadly, the other folks are (realistically) probably a lost cause but at the very least we need to do better educating our children in critical thinking and being ok with being wrong.

I stopped at "this reads like ChatGPT" but maybe I'm old and cynical :/

Agree with your take 100%.

This doesn't seem to be the case here. Which comment is showing up top for you?

+1 for Alfred

I personally use a tiling window manager when I feel like it but also get how it's personal preference :)

In the context of reviews my experience has only been code review quality brought up as a negative thing for folks and the bar to not be a negative is low enough that folks slowly take less and less time to review code well because it isn't valued come review time.

Thanks for sharing :)

I have very little context but it's interesting that, presumably, the lower profit industry was replaced with the higher profit one.

And on top of that the higher profit one is probably of less value to society.

This is probably incredibly naive so apologies if so - are things like differing obesity or other health problem causing conditions accounted for when looking at overall outcomes of the system?

The higher cost makes perfect sense to me but calculating an apples to apples comparison of health outcomes between potentially very different populations seems potentially very difficult? Again sorry it's probably a solved problem but figured I'd ask :)

What about the health and wellbeing of individuals?

Were there well studied negative health impacts from reading excessively during this very similar scenario?

I'm not a historian so I'm curious to see the parallels because right now it looks like we're talking about two completely different things.

Letting people figure out cigarettes were bad for them took a very long time, and if social media is another form of addiction why not treat it how we treat other addictive products?

We could assume that this time is different and people, well children and minors specifically, will learn to avoid the addiction rather than banning them like alcohol, cigarettes and gambling.

This time might be different. But it's probably not.

Ahhh solid yup sounds like we're on the same page then thanks for the extra explanation ! :)

In my experience if the ai voice was immediately noticeable the writing provided nothing new and most of the time is actively wrong or trying to make itself seem important and sell me on something the owner has a stake in.

Not sure if this is true for other people but it's basically always a sign of something I end up wishing I hadn't wasted my time reading.

It isn't inherently bad by any means but it turns out it's a useful quality metric in my personal experience.

I'm bad with spread sheets so maybe this is trivial but having an llm tell me how to connect my sheet to whatever data I'm using at the moment and it coming up with a link or sql query or both has allowed me to quickly pull in data where I'd normally eyeball it and move on or worst case do it partially manually if really important.

It's like one off scripts in a sense? I'm not doing complex formulas I just need to know how I can pull data into a sheet and then I'll bucketize or graph it myself.

Again probably because I'm not the most adept user but it has definitely been a positive use case for me.

I suspect my use case is pretty boilerplatey :)