AI Angst - Tim Bray

This is my fourth AI link today and probably my last for a while. Tim Bray's post, AI Angst, is one that I most align with. I don't deny there's benefits to using generative AI for coding but there's long term questions that I'd like answers to. Tim Bray poses that question here, as he comments on Thomas Ptacek's post, My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts, one I just shared.

Suppose that, as Ptacek suggests, LLMs/agents allow us to automate the tedious low-intellectual-effort parts of our job. Should we be concerned about how junior developers learn to get past that “easy stuff” and on the way to senior skills?

Tim Bray also comments on the cost of the carbon footprint training and using these tools, and how seemingly useless this is in professional communication. This is worth the read.