Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…It all made perfect sense. I really do like that phrase, it makes it less lonely. I think there’s something to that that’s interesting having just some level of interaction that’s not just like an LSP autocomplete, having something that’s actually a little bit more than just that where it actually is thinking through and you can see a different thought and you’re like, “Oh wow, that’s a way different approach than I would’ve taken. Hey, that’s cool. I like these kind things.” And the thing is that I’m not a AI negative person. I can see why people really, really like it. I used Copilot from when Nat gave me the access all the way up until about six months ago. I used it for quite some time. And I really did enjoy the things I used out of it. It did the opposite for me. I felt like I was more reviewing than writing and I felt like I was more just letting things slide where I just didn’t really think too heavily about stuff. And just I wasn’t as engaged. And so I’m like, “Okay, something’s kind wrong here.” And that’s just a me personal thing. I recognize that is not how someone should approach these things. That’s not a good reason for why you should or should not use AI. I just don’t think that that’s right. I could probably correct that and figure out a better way to do it. I’ve been meaning to have another AI round, and so I’ve been thinking about maybe I just need to spend two weeks in Cursor and just fully embrace what does it mean to be somebody like this? And what can I do with these new powers? Have they improved to the point where they’re actually good? And for me, because a lot of the decisions I make, a lot of the little functions I’m writing, it’s not because trying to write this function to solve this problem, it’s because I’m writing these functions or this set not just to solve this problem but because I know in about another 2,000 lines of code of building all these other things, I’m going to need to start doing this next activity. It’s like I’m trying to really try to chess move myself into the exact things that, as I let things go faster, I fall apart on that chess move. And again, skill issues for on my behalf. And I mean it in the truest sense of the word where it’s like I’m making a critique because I don’t use it well enough. I don’t know if this is a general rule, this is my anecdote data. The better you’re programming, the less you want to use the AI, the more gets in the way. The good programmers- It’s fair enough, as far as I can tell.…

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