Gaslighting is AI's greatest strength. What a great post! Both fun to read and important psychological advice!
Yes, it gaslights better than an ex. Hyping up the worst ideas and when we present it in the real world. We get the honest feedback and starts thinking are my ideas worst when the tool has failed to analyze my ideas and review it properly and the worst part, the embarrassment will be faced by us alone. The AI will respond only with "Sorry. Here's a better idea".
I love this post 😂 Especially the "it’s always your fault" part.
And about the "pushing people away" thing, one of my dev friends caught herself asking AI about literally everything instead of thinking for herself first. A kind of cognitive laziness started creeping in 😅
I'm glad you loved it. Yeah, exactly the laziness kicks in, for every task the urge to just ask AI for solutions rather than asking yourself first. I found myself there sometimes. I think you pulled your dev friend out of the AI loophole 😆.
Once it told me it can browse this url and scrape its content for me and it " did "
I then asked if it can see this specific content anywhere and it says:
" yes! I can see that it's on here " ( it says this immediately which is suspiciously too fast )
So I said: " No no, this specific content is nowhere to be found on this url's content and it goes: " You're right, I couldn't actually browse the url because of some restriction but thank you for telling me that "
Amazing story 😆. There are a lot of things it can't do but it won't tell on the first go. Always lying and making us curious that AI has these capabilities built-in I should have used it earlier. Then later I realize it's useless can't do some basic work as well.
How is "Let's ask AI instinct" conceptually different from "Let's Google it instinct" or "Let's check Stack Overflow instinct"? Or prehistorical "Let's go to the library"? It is the very same thing, just faster, more convenient and more focused.
It is just ridiculous how some of us are desperatelly trying to foresee the world you know is "falling appart" because something new and eventually better arrived and we started using it.
It's really heartening to know that people are considering stuff like this when it comes to AI. Sometimes I worry that people are caught up in the hype and urgency.
I am an AI skeptic. I am skeptical about everything. I've rushed into a lot of things and paid the price for my haste, so now I take my time making decisions about everything. I ask a lot of questions before executing on anything. It's a scientific method.
This is the kind of critical thinking I worry that AI threatens so I am glad to see this post and read your thoughts on your AI use. This is the kind of self awareness that will be critical to learning how to use AI wisely!
We all should be AI skeptic and make sure to AI as a tool not as a life savior. I'm glad you take your time and use your brain to think first.
Thank you for your amazing words. We all should AI wisely and for our betterment.
I am also an AI skeptic. Glad to hear there are more of us here! ✋🏻
Plot twist: AI is not the toxic ex; we are 😅 Point no.6 feels the most relatable to me – at some point, I started doubting my own skills, simply thinking that AI would do it better. The worst thing is that it can shush a shy or not self-confident person with its overconfidence. It may be scary how much potential we lost because of this.
Thanks for the great read! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ofcourse, it can either destroy or boost your confidence depending on how much sugarcoating AI has done earlier 😆.
You are amazing, your posts are amazing. Keep up the good work don't doubt yourself. AI is better but you are much better than AI.
Awww, what a nice thing to say! Thank you for your kind words 🥹
The toxic ex framing is fun but it sneaks in an assumption worth questioning: that going back to AI is weakness.
For centering a div — running to AI isn't dependence, it's optimization. The question is whether you still understand why the answer works. If you do, the tool is doing its job. If you don't, that's the actual problem not the frequency of use.
The accountability point (#7) is the sharpest one here. AI wrote the code in an hour. You debug it for ten. That gap is real and nobody talks about it enough.
Going back to it for every task is weakness. I feel we need to use our brains first for anything and then optimize it using AI that way we get the best of both worlds.
Yes, exactly Daniel. If we can understand and explain the optimization well. Then, the tool is doing it's job. Debugging always cause issue, the vibe coded apps can be headache if not properly prompted and one error can take so much time to find and replace that it might ruin your sleep.
Haha the title got my attention, fun read Konark!
Thanks, Aryan. I'm glad it got your attention.
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Yes, Daniel these are some valid inputs "be brutally honest" or "give critical feedback only." to ask AI before it reviews our idea that way, we will know whether our idea is actually good or not.
I go with confidence score, it is what I learned recently and have saved a lot time as well. Asking the AI to give confidence score at the end and answer only if it is confident enough. This helps me to let AI not hallucinate and not give me false hopes for my idea.
"Confidence score" sounds like a good tip. I’ll definitely try combining it with prompts like "give critical feedback only."