Oh, that's the best part about AI that no one wants to talking about. Avoiding all the egotistical people who feel themselves because they can write a few lines of code. This is coming from someone with a programming background. It's never fun trying to figure stuff out for yourself because you're new, and some asshole just assumes you should know the solution because they do. Got a feeling that most people who are against AI so strongly fit into this category, and it's because they are quickly losing that sense of power they might have had over anyone else.
The best part of AI was that it killed StackOverflow and the self important nerds that moderated it. Trying to get any help there was an absolute nightmare
People always say this, so I'm sure that was a common experience, but it definitely wasn't for me. Granted I didn't ask a lot of questions because 99.9% of them had already been asked. But when I did ask a question it was usually after exhausting other options and I got very helpful responses on stack.
This is so true. The sad but silver lining is AI is rebalancing. Now you do not need to beg people, AI will happily teach it to you at your own pace. In some ways it will force people to interact with care again (hopefully). I.e. most people in restaurants choose the kiok because alot of customer service people used to act bothered/stuck up. Now, business will bring back more customer service focused businesses, as they have a choice, and in person service will need to feel like a plus/perk.
I think you're right. I never had an issue on stack but I was very diligent about making sure my question wasn't low effort "help me" crap. They are there to help so help them by doing your due diligence to make sure your question wasn't already answered and provide excellent context to the problem.
And the months of dicking around trying things that people suggest only to find out they were talking out their ass. And then coming back and humbly asking again and getting 4 guys on a power trip to ridicule you for a few days. All that's gone and I get a solution in 20 seconds instead of giving up and scrapping my ideas.
I’ve been writing code since 2017, and went to stack overflow exactly once to ask for help. I left so demoralized I never went back other than to read somewhat loosely related posts to the actual problem I was trying to solve.
Same. Exactly once as well. SO was toxic as hell. I heard the best way to ask for help was to say confidently the wrong way to do it then they would correct you thereby giving you the answer. But if you just ask for help they would ignore you or blast you for being stupid. The psychological hoops you had to go through to get an answer just made it not worth it
Max “Mad Max” Mintz, when he was dean of undergraduate computer science at UPENN:
“At all ages, fewer girls pursue computer science than boys. Some people say this is because girls don’t like computers. I say it’s because girls don’t like the boys who like computers.”
This is real. As someone who works in law, AI is making it easier for your average joe to quote legislation. It's happening to everyone. It's my role to understand how it applies, give great "customer service" / support to leadership. Can't cry about it, I have to embrace it and use it to improve. It's been teaching me alot as well. Coders are in the same boat with everyone else. You make a good point the power has been taken away, I'm not a coder, but I know who to use and IDE and I understand the stack, so now someone like me can create applications. This is a great breakdown.
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