Clojurians Log v2
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In regards to AI making devs more efficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/02/04/g-s1-46018/ai-deepseek-economics-jevons-paradox So that begs the question, is the demand for software development elastic?
Yes! that's the one
:)
Re: our discussion around AI last night: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-just-wrote-the-most-beautiful-short-story-and-i-wonder-what-im-even-doing-here
(writing fiction is a hobby of mine, so like my worry about the problem solving high of programming being lost, I wonder what's the point of learning and honing a creative craft when AI can do it with the vaguest of prompts?)
Just to get it off my chest and put it into words: I think what bothers me most about it is that I can look at what other authors have produced and compare my own works against it and see how much better they are than me. I can strive to improve what I can do, knowing that those authors got to where they are through so much effort, refining their craft through years of practice. I may never be as good -- some people are just uniquely talented -- but that's okay, because it feels like they've earned their laurels. Enter AI writing: anyone can wake up one day and "write" a story in minutes better than anything I could do with months of effort. Why? Because the system has slurped up (read: stolen) the sum works of the greatest creative minds across all our generations and found a way to stitch it all together. There's no person to point to and lift up as a hero, a role model. It's just a black box that's climbed to great heights on the shoulders of countless talented people and pulled the ladder up after itself. /rant
I've been meaning to do this before, but I finally pushed up the code I've been working on during the meetup sessions: https://github.com/justone/la-meetup-caveman