Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

Summary

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating diagrams (Canva, Figma), but a big no to the writing (or coding). Someone needs to add knowledge or new insights; AI cannot train itself. So articles, books, and words will be written, and writers will be more in demand as everyone relies on AI, which at some point just plateaus. It will be a long-term loss; people stop thinking and learning. Time will tell. My two cents, if you are a senior in something, you know better. Bsky # Guidance on When to Use It I heard from ThePrimeagen: It depends on how far you fix into the future. Short-term autocomplete is fine, but architectural decisions are big no, no’s. This is about the bottom where we have time and the left where we have amount of errors. This means that the longer we use AI for fixing something in the future, like an architecture, the more errors it will produce. If we use it for quick autocomplete or creating a well-defined algorithm function, it’s less prone to errors. In that first phase, you gain 20% productivity; in the later phases, you lose more. This is like in real life, the longer I wait with making m decision, the more information I have, the better the decison will be. And is exactly what Shape Up preaches with maximum deciding for 6 weeks (a cycle), don’t have roadmaps and backlogs for longer than that in the future. Similar is it with using AI, as all of it is predicted probability. Another great illustration by Forrest Brazeal: Also to keep in mind what’s most imporant to your usecase like illustrated by Thomas ...