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elasticeel

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elasticeel··on Grieving the loss of details
Great sentiment about reserving intellectual heavy lifting to your personal life. I've always valued keeping enough in the tank for myself (and now my family) outside of work.

It seems in our profession there might be less satisfaction from work, but if it leaves me with more space to accomplish things in my own time, I think I prefer it.

elasticeel··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Very well said. As someone who taught for 6 years it's hard enough to just stay on top of lesson planning, let alone opens my curriculum to incorporate a tool (LLMs) which I'm personally figuring out for my own use.

LLMs add the most utility to people who understand process and what a good result looks and feels like. To a novice they can't stunt the learning of this.

elasticeel··on AllInOneTools – Free, no-login tools that run in the browser
Did you mean to link something?
elasticeel··on The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
Do they though? Our do they learn that having a good engineer means they can assign ambiguous tasks and the software developer can reason through good decision making and follow up with clarifying questions.

LLMs need to get better at asking clarifying questions and trying to show the initial solution might not work. Even when they get better at that, this article states that managers not capable of thinking through the answers well enough will fall short and this is the space that developers live in.