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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.
Basically a varient of “AI is so impressive and knowledgeable, except for that one thing that I am an expert of and were it keeps hallucinating complete bullshit all the time. Weird.”
Which explains why C-suites push it so hard for everyone
Well, they do have the one job that actually can be replaced by “AI” (though in most cases it’d be more beneficial to just eliminate it altogether).
AI has been excellent at teaching me to program in new languages. It knows everything about all languages - except the ones I’m already familiar with. It’s terrible at those.
I don’t know. I worked as a software dev for 5 years and have a BS in CS. I’ve transitioned to ecological work. The progress I’ve seen with Claude Code specifically has convinced me that even moderate gains in intelligence will lead to the functional replacement of several data entry and junior programming jobs.
It’s true that people overestimate LLM performance in other domains. But, software is easy to generate synthetic data for, objectively testable by adversarial models, etc.
My background is in infrastructure. I stand the network and servers back up after SHTF. I’ve been able to lean on AI to write some scripts for me at work and while some of the scripts haven’t been perfect, its gotten me way further than I would on my own. I of course read through the code and try to understand it before running it on anything I care about, and when I can make improvements I do but I definitely get lost pretty quickly in the logic when working with powershell scripts
Point is, yeah AI’s getting pretty good at code and is absolutely nipping the heels of jr devs in terms of quality of work
