AI Ramble
I've never felt the same enthusiasm about AI that basically the whole world seems to feel. The practical use I've gotten out of AI tools is fairly limited: some simple code snippets and maybe a couple ideas for D&D. Nothing I'm particularly impressed with, to be honest.
The rise of "vibe coding" gives me some pause, too. Part of me, the insecure part, wants to try it out for myself. Maybe I can reap the massive rewards that others claim to be able to achieve with tools like Cursor? However, the rational part of me (is it rational?) thinks it's just another fad. Just another tool that the peddlers claim to be a panacea to all problems, but is really useful in a much narrower set of scenarios. As a person, not politically, I lean towards being conservative; I don't want to base my career on a set of unproven technology. The risk of the peddlers going out of business is too high in my mind.
A couple years ago, when ChatGPT took the world by storm, I chose to bet on myself instead of LLMs for my career. I was so confident in my own abilities that I'd be fine losing my career if I was wrong. Even if I use LLMs in some capacity now, I wouldn't be dead in the water without them. Coding isn't the hard part of my job; maybe I spend an hour understanding some gnarly code to modify it, but that's not the majority of my time. Figuring out what and how to code is. I work on a project that was formerly a startup created before the advent of AI. It was rushed and cobbled together so they could get to market and build features customers wanted. AI tools will make that easier, but my job of maintaining it can't be any easier.
Still, my uneasiness won't go away. Probably never will.
Thanks for reading my post-wakeup rambles :)