I remember when I suggested that I shouldn’t learn to write in 1998, because you can just type on the computer, I was laughed at. I was told that at best I’d still need to learn to write, and at worst computers can turn out as a fad due to them requiring electricity to work, they can crash and go bad, etc. Pease note that my dislike of writing was heavily influenced by likely having dyspraxia, and a lot of cheaper pens/pencils being mildly painful to hold.
However, the very same people are now disencouraging anything that the AI is promised to replace. Don’t draw, just use Dall-E. Don’t code, just use ChatGPT. Don’t play music, just use Suno. Don’t make movies, just wait until it can do it good enough. The music one is even often being pushed by those who absolutely despised electronic music for “not requiring any talent, just pressing buttons”, all while AI music is literally what ignorant rock/metal kids thought electronic music production was. Even one person, who criticized me for using amp sims on my PC instead of a wall of tube amplifiers is more favorable than not towards AI music.
I wonder if those who now disencourage art classes in favor of a short lesson on how to prompt an image generator will also disencourage writing due to speech-to-text technologies. Maybe the problem is that they don’t use LLMs, but often a more primitive version of neural networks.
And I’m not 100% against new tools. I even use Neural Amp Modeler, sometimes even two instances with one having a Boss HM-2 response for that Swedish chainsaw tone. But these prompt machines are barely more than toys for real professional work, due to the lack of actual control beyond prompting.
Had a few times I went out to recharge my social battery, and at least a couple of people I know over some drinks have gone whole hog on ChatGPT believing the shit’s gonna make them rich by supposedly making the process of coding or otherwise simplified instead of (re)learning programming by reading hours of documentation and running sample code.
I’ve literally had a friend I hadn’t talked to in over a decade show up out of fucking nowhere to pitch me on vibe coding as a career. Wild shit.
Thats literally my sister. She got her proposal approved by a local startup incubator so she thinks it’ll make her rich
What’s her proposal?
She started vibe coding and interfacing with multiple LLMs to get a sense of building applications but I don’t think any of them are full fledged or bug free. She then told the incubator that she has a workshop for building production ready programs and apps and she is hoping it all goes well when she starts this series of workshops. She’s a lot more confident in the idea than me. I’ve done some vibe coding exercises and haven’t had a fruitful session with it. This is the same sister that had a manic psychosis episode back in July-August from conversing with LLMs like GPT5 and Claude; her husband committed her to a psych ward for observation and she eventually was able to come out of the manic episode. It was super scary to see my sister in that state but telling her she shouldn’t use AI has been fruitless because she’s an adult and responsible for her own actions. Sorry to rant