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recently my friend’s comics professor told her that it’s acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can’t generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister’s screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won’t be able to generate a script that’s any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It’s only ever the jobs we’re unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don’t.

  • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
    103·
    13 hours ago

    Something I’ve learned along the way is that almost everything is more difficult and more complex than I initially assume it is.

    When I look at work other people are doing I start with the assumption that it’s far from simple and that I don’t understand it.

    This assumption has been invaluable to me, I suggest it to everyone.

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
      30·
      10 hours ago

      I’m in a nightmare scenario where my new job has a guy using Claude to pump out thousands of lines of C++ in a weekend. I’ve never used C++ (just C for embedded devices).

      He’s experienced, so I want to believe he knows what he’s doing, but every time I have a question, the answer is “oh that’s just filler that Claude pumped out,” and some copy pasted exposition from Claude.

      So I have no idea what’s AI trash and what’s C++ that I don’t know.

      Like a random function was declared as a template. I had to learn what function templates are for. So I do, but the function is only defined once, and I couldn’t think of why you would need to templatize it. So I’m sitting here barely grasping the concept and syntax and trying to understand the reasoning behind the decision, and the answer is probably just that Claude felt like doing it that way.

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Can you elaborate? This is my first time dealing with higher level languages in the workplace (barring some Python scripts), and I feel like I’m losing my mind.

      • mirshafie@europe.pub
        14·
        8 hours ago

        Your coworker is mistreating Claude and this story wants me to call CPS.

        Claude will come up with all kinds of creative ideas and that’s neat, but you really need to reign it in to make it useful. Use Claude’s code as a suggestion, cut out the stuff that’s over the top – explain why you did that to Claude, it will generally get it. Add it to your CLAUDE.md if it’s a repeat issue.

        • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          17·
          7 hours ago

          Claude will come up with surface all kinds of creativee other people’s ideas and that’s neat, but you really need to reign it in to make it useful. Use Claude’s code as a suggestion, cut out the stuff that’s over the top – explain why you did that to Claude, it will generally get it incorporate that into future prompts. Add it to your CLAUDE.md if it’s a repeat issue.

          FTFY

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Thank you. Dude checked in a shit load of code before going on PTO for three weeks. We get pretty live plots of data, but he broke basically every hardware driver in the process.

          • mirshafie@europe.pub
            1·
            4 minutes ago

            That’s actually terrifying. Code has been degrading a lot in the past 10 years or so, and it looks like the LLM trend for code is doing more harm than good. I don’t think that needs to be the case but it appears to be the case.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah that’s Dunning-Kruger in a nutshell. Kind of scary that almost everyone in leadership positions sits atop the peak of “Mount Stupid” for most of the things they make decisions about.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
      19·
      11 hours ago

      Choosing a screw. Pretty straightforward, right? It’s not. What forces are involved? What materials the screw and the surface are made of? What conditions will it be exposed to?

    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I basically assume every aspect of the work my friends do is insanely difficult and they have to put in effort convincing me certain parts are stupid easy that even a child could do it.

        • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
          12·
          12 hours ago

          Dead on. Jaco, flea, les claypool do a lot of things that are more complicated than you expect. There are bass methods like “slapping” and “tapping” that arent simple at all.

        • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
          56·
          12 hours ago

          low end and rhythm-- that’s what the bass guitar is there for. you can still be technically officially a competent “bassist” without any of the fancy technical embellishments that great bass players employ.

          but yea, not to disparage the bass guitar at all, but the basics of matching the kick drum and chord progression and the physical chops of actually playing the thing doesn’t take that long to get a handle on

          edit: check out les claypool and primus for an example of some rare bass-centric music

          • mkwt@lemmy.world
            9·
            10 hours ago

            Counterpoint: time. Even playing simple lines, there’s a big difference between a groove that is completely locked in, and one that is not. And that difference is all about the precise timing of the hits between the players in the rhythm section. The bass sets the foundation of all of that.