“worth anything” were the words I used. I didn’t say LLMs weren’t new, but right now they’re just untrustworthy and people keep using them as huge crutches so they don’t need to actually learn how to do the most basic elements of their jobs

It's a tool. I can respect that to you the tool doesn't seem helpful, but there are many people who are skilled at their jobs but also have to write a lot of boilerplate maybe for unit testing, maybe for writing REST endpoints, but there will be a task where the LLM outpaces you and you just refuse to use it to find out. There's a for what and when to use it, and in those situations you unfortunately are already outpaced.

You're certainly right it shouldn't be used as a crutch for every type of work, but you're wrong that not ever using it is more efficient than using it contextually.

You will be left behind. Laughing at juniors who over rely in it is putting your guard down. Juniors become seniors with time and experience.

Also what a wild example to use colonized native Americans with the US and all its failures in quality of life(the pretty propaganda does not make the senseless poverty go away), education, and human rights. “Look, AI is like a giant shit hole and you’re just not keeping up!”

Why's that wild? I chose it for that exact reason.

AI means that you and I have to be more efficient or we will be left behind.

Being more productive doesn't benefit you or me in any way, except not losing our jobs. Our bosses are just sucking more money out of us.

But AI has landed and is colonizing us. Plugging your ears and refusing to engage with it isn't a historically successful response.

If you don't want to use AI going forward, then we need to organize to ban it. We can't individually just insist "I'm more productive without it!" because expertise is difficult for non experts doing the hiring to sus out, but productivity is easy to track via metric.

It's a shit world out here, why do you think I'm disagreeing?