You should not have mercy on someone who repeatedly ignores all warnings without thinking and then hurts themselves in the way the warnings promised. At that point you are on your very own.

It feels like LLMs are specifically laser targeting the "never learn" mindset, with a promise of leaving skill and knowledge to a machine. (people like that don't even pause to think why they would be needed in the loop at all if that were the case)

Who has time for reading? Audio content at least allows you to absorb information while your hands and eyes can be busy with other things: cleaning, driving, etc.

Besides, teaching videos and also books often share a common weakness: low information density. Youtubers and Authors both like to talk so damn much without saying anything. Give me a good story or documentation catalogue any day, but stop mixing the two.

> teaching videos and also books often share a common weakness: low information density

Here we agree, but for books I don't need to read the low-density material. Review articles, for example, are fantastic. Scholarly books can be overwhelming due to density x size.

> Audio content at least allows you to absorb information while your hands and eyes can be busy with other things: cleaning, driving, etc.

Not with high-density content, IME.

Art is often its own reward.

Depends on the country; US, probably not. Many european countries, probably yes. Asia? Your gov will ask you why you would bother them with a stupid and meaningless question like that in the first place.

at least they are honest? Also "thanks for the tape backup idea anyway"

Tape backups were the norm back then.

They were only honest because I was working for an IBM Business Partner. They wouldn't disclose it to the customer.

Ad hominem right out of the gate? Really?

This sounds like their medicine might be worse than what they're currently doing...

A reminder: if the AI is doing all the work you demand of it correctly on this abstraction level, you are no longer needed in the loop.

I've used AI assitance in coding for a year before I quit. The hardest part was a day when the services where unexpectedly down, and working felt like I was amputated in some way. Nothing works, my usual movement does not produce code. That day I realised these AI integrations take away my knowledge and skill of the matter and is just maximising the easiest and fastest part of software development: writing code.