It sounds like https://xkcd.com/1172/ too

And also https://xkcd.com/1319/

Do you think he needs to make any more money in his life, or can he retire tomorrow and live comfortably long past his death?

I think the difference is between someone like you who wants to learn and a teenager who has to learn.

I used to be a tutor, and the kids who wanted to get ahead were people who more needed someone to give them hints as they learned. The ones who needed to get the grade were a lot more reticent and needed a lot more attention and prodding.

I don't think AI as it currently exists is a good choice for those folks.

It comes down to the same issue that all AI comes down to really.

If there’s proper oversight (tutor teaches the student and reviews knowledge while the student uses the AI to study or test themselves) that’s fine.

If it’s just the AI then a student isn’t going to know what they don’t even know to ask.

This can also work with books or adequate material someone is basing their learning on.

Can't say I love this for the PNW's water resources and fire forecast next year. Good luck to us all

I think it'll become increasingly important to have folks thinking about how to explain new math in a way that makes sense to your math bachelors students. And to your bright AP Calc students.

If we can point ChatGPT at these problems and get eventual answers, that's awesome, but it'll still be important to figure out how to tell people why this matters in ways they understand.

At least personally, parts of the differences for me are that the same instructions to a different CNC machine should produce the same product and that the machinist, presumably, created the instructions themselves.

Instead of saying "create instructions for CNC to make me a _thing_, then instruct the CNC machine to actually create the _thing_" they went and created the instructions themselves.

It sounds like you're also advocating for some form of permanent pragma that gets stored in the SQLite file and that the CLI will read and apply on startup?

That way somebody can snag a copy of your data and be subject to the same constraints by default.

I think that’s a feature. Not a bug.

I see where you're coming from, but I think it's less the fact that they _can_ use an LLM to do this and more that they can't guarantee anybody else has exercised equal diligence with their code or equal experience with browser engines.

It's not unreasonable to feel conflicted about this, but at the same time, I wonder if they're starting to burn out on code review.

My point is, there will be people who figure out how to cope. And those projects will succeed.

Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball.

From the flip side, 10 years in, I've been getting really into art.

It's not cheap, but it's easier to do my job with the thought that I have art this week and next week and maybe I'll get to teach it someday too.

It feels healthy to not let your work control your life after retirement. There's so much else out there to do.