At the end of the day I'm not paying an engineer to send me claude all day. I'm paying someone to become an expert on a system, even if AI assisted. The product will be better if i have someone that deeply understands the system and where to point AI to. Someone that can understand the full big picture can also anticipate future needs - something AI cannot do at all.

I'm in EE/embedded/FPGA work and you can make an absolute hell of a mess with AI in that world, so maybe everyones opinions are more based around front end software or something. I think people forget there are fields that do not have the huge data training base that frontend/backend software does. a large majority of good designs in FPGA are proprietary at big defense corps, not on stackoverflow and github.

- Robert Mercer, the former co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies

> Passkeys need a marketing campaign and UX overhaul. I’m a technical guy, but I really don’t understand what the fuck is going on when I use a passkey. All I know is one day it appeared as an option and it let me login to things. I don’t really understand where it lives, what device it’s tied to, how scanning a QR code on Google Chrome on my phone magically logs me in, etc etc.

The user was not educated on this. Hacker News is the top 1% of computer power users. You gotta understand to someone’s grandma or mom or brother who works in real estate none of this makes any sense nor will they educate themselves on what it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301585#46303892

AI generated content graded by AI for what goal exactly? I don't understand this contest at all.

What is the point of my work, especially when I must ship for a paycheck, if I offload all my thinking and understanding to a machine. I can certainly dig deep and understand all the code the AI wrote, but when you didn’t create it, it feels so much less fulfilling. How does one find fulfillment in the AI engineering age? Isn’t solving problems and coming up with novel solutions part of why most of us got into it in the first place? When you strip that away, what is left? It’s code casino - I pull the lever, it spits out something that either feels like a dopamine hit (it works), or it spits out garbage and I prompt and pull the lever again hoping to strike the jackpot.

I find the most insufferable engineers those who use AI and think they are geniuses because they have access to this tool. Or say “AI told me …” They mistake the tools output for their own creative output or ingenuity.

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