January 26, 2026 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Deep Learning and Craftsmanship Matter
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Anthropic does some interesting videos on AI. Very importantly, they spend some time on ethics.
We don't have a decree from on high to use AI, but we do have a company-paid subscription to CoPilot. I started using AI as a better search engine. Then I asked if it could spot bugs in my code that I couldn't pin down. It did.
Sometimes I get curious and ask if it can do some task I would previously not have thought to ask it to do. Often, I'm glad I did.
To be honest, I'm looking at AI as if I were onboarding a new team member. Teams go through the forming, storming, norming and performing cycle. I'm not quite at the norming stage yet.
April 11, 2026 at 1:14 am
"However, the GenAI is based on what other humans have already done. It's "trained" on lots of existing ideas, decisions, codebases, etc. It can recall and use those quicker, and often as well as many humans. It might be a light craftsman, but it can't be a great one."
You could say the same about humans, though - thinking of Newton saying "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Ask a human to re-discover all of the sciences from scratch and even a genius couldn't do it in one lifetime.
I agree with the limitations you've described for LLMs now, I just don't think those limits will persist if AGI is achieved, which is what all of the AI cos are racing towards.
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