Sometimes, I skim the generated text. I mean, most of it is supposition and filler, right? The rest of the time, I cut to the chase: does the code work? If not, I ignore all the generated text, pass along the errors/warnings, and go from there.
What I like best about working with AI is that I feel like a leader developer again (I've been retired from programming for almost 30 years.) It's pleasant and I don't need to worry about how snarky I get when going over bad code.
> It's pleasant and I don't need to worry about how snarky I get when going over bad code.
Yes, reviewing an LLM code is at times infuriating, but at least I can be brief and direct, rather than spend 2x the effort trying to make sure it won't be interpreted as harsh.
One of the first things we discussed in my first year at art college was originality. No one has an original idea these days. It's all been done many, many, many times. The only thing original is POV, but with so much media being pumped into our brains even that isn't guaranteed any longer... and that was the state of things in 1985. Now, some 40 years later, what hope does originality have?
Since your course/ the 1990s we've had the mainstreaming of street art with figures like banksy going global the young British artists in the UK and the superflat movement in Japan both becoming prominent and a whole slew of digital art critiquing the rise of the internet and AI. There's clearly been huge original movements and there will be more because the world keeps changing and there's always new things happening that infinite people react to in infinite ways.
Asking a bunch of first year college students "has everything that can be invented been invented?" is going to yield wrong answers just because it's something you ask students as a thinking exercise but the answers will be wrong even if your class probably knew more than a total layman it would be the same as asking an undergrad pol sci student the same question as a 20 year diplomatic professional.
You are only proving the OP's point: street art already found mainstream celebration in the 1980s with Basquiat and Keith Haring. Banksy is just a further example of this, with a better-oiled business machine.
> No one has an original idea these days.
> The only thing original is POV,
> but with so much media being pumped into our brains even that isn't guaranteed any longer
There have been new mediums new ways of expression and new movements and reactions to them.
It's obviously not just differences in point of view. Or if it is the case then all of art history is changes in points of view (which is a legitimate view but sort of navel gazing imo as It doesn't really go anywhere). Just saying "ah but banksy is commercialised" is a non sequitur.
The argument about monoculture again I'd refer back to the list of new movements and reactions. It's a smart sounding statement that people like to say about media when they only experience a bit of it but it doesn't really get borne out by reality.
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