I suspect once we figure it out agentic work in software will actually be a huge aid to codebase comprehension This is such a wildly unpopular thought right now but you know what I'm going to pre-register my belief in this possibility
This might just be a trap for my blocklist but I'm really curious what people who are heavily using AI in software jobs and consider themselves comfy with it think AI literacy looks like. How do you encourage it for juniors? What patterns or habits of work are you trying to encourage and use?
The conversation about AI in health stuff is always about the risks of patients using AI. I'm more worried about possibilities like every appointment gets inspected by an insurance company in detail so that if a patient uses the slightly wrong words about something their care is denied.
try to carefully use an LLM to do a thing -> "you're an idiot" try to carefully describe the ways you tried to be rigorous about using an LLM to do a thing -> "well you're clearly not an average user" try to carefully describe the ways you try to help average users use LLMs do a thing -> 😡🔪🔪 etc
The thing is with AI and skills, we're not just debating whether people can gain the same skills. We're trying to figure out which skills matter. This is a very major disagreement that not all arguments are making explicit
Some troll today said I was using "people's medical issues to push genAI." Let's get it right ffs. I'm using MY medical issues to push AI.
Women just want AI to help with basic household wife tasks (convincing doctors and insurance companies that they need a functioning immune system to live)
"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning
Can I just say it's disorienting to see people who like, roundly and vociferously mocked the idea that AI could have utility now immediately float into AI leadership and thought leadership positions. When I open accessed my AI Skill Threat study I had to field a thousand skeptical biting comments
A punitive view of education will never have the answer to what to do when students can use AI. A view of education that cares about motivating students will. In a world where student motivation needs to be earned not just enforced it's pretty clear that's the only way to elicit effort.
