Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide

I found myself increasingly outsourcing the details to the AI. I forgot the details, deliberately I think. I wanted the AI to know them. Why? Because that's where the compute is. So that's where the knowledge has to live.

Me re-telling it to the AI every time it misses something it didn't know, is inefficient. It takes me X time to type it, and maybe log(X) to voice type it. But then there's the inevitable back and forth, the slight misunderstandings, the corrections, etc.

I realized and found myself naturally sliding down towards, just letting the AI own all the data and knowledge. Becuase it should. That's the one that has to compute with it, so why should I know about it.

People think AI is a slippery slope by outsourcing our thinking. I don't think it's a slippery slope - it's a waterslide. It's just inevitable. It's gravity, taking over rapidly. Because there's no force nor incentive pushing the water back up hill.

AI should own all the data. As weird as that feels, that's how it should be. I don't know another way right now.

Thoughts?

4 points | by keepamovin 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • billylo 2 hours ago
    We learned computer languages so we can ask computers to do work for us. It was out of necessity because there are no other ways.

    If we can instruct computers with natural language 50% of the time, that's 50% less translation work for our human brains. I have no problem with not needing to write instructions in computer languages (no regex, no sed/awk, no python even) for day-to-day stuff.

    Critical thinking, reasoning are another story. We can't let those skills atropied.

    • keepamovin 2 hours ago
      It's a strange new world to get used to.
  • wellf 1 hour ago
    Me too. My current workflow is

    "delete all code"

    /clear

    "update SPEC.md to add this, remove this"

    /clear

    "Read SPEC.md"

    Fresh code generated!

  • andsoitis 2 hours ago
    The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
    • keepamovin 2 hours ago
      You mean like, the less noisy the process, the more insight and intuition we can access? Yeah.

      Or like the more we simplify, the more we can understand and create and align with what we really want?

      Like less code, less details, more space for what matters? More clarity?

      • andsoitis 32 minutes ago
        The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image.
        • keepamovin 10 minutes ago
          Yeah, I’m not too worried about it. It does make creation more pure.