Raw LLM Responses

Think of it this way: Smartphones made people complacent by allowing us to access the world's knowledge from a device that can go anywhere with us. The internet did the same by consolidating and making shareable across great distances, that same body of knowledge, albeit less complete at the time. Books did the same by letting people skip the step of figuring out a novel problem that had been solved in generations before. Agriculture did the same by allowing us to gather and reproduce in greater numbers without as much hunting. And language did the same by allowing us to ask each other for what we need instead of finding everything for ourselves. ChatGPT and similar tools will someday be what Google is now; a utility that everyone uses every day. A search engine, but it actually seems to comprehend what you ask it, rather than just showing you the best it can of what others have said, which will allow us to ask and get answers to novel questions that haven't necessarily been solved and contextualized to the issue we come to it with. Yeah, it will add a layer of complacency, but if we're honest, humanity doesn't miss the hunter-gatherer days, and we're better off for having left them behind. The future is okay. Complacency can give us new ways to thrive harder than we ever did before. Just because you're moving away from having everything memorized, doesn't make you less valuable as a programmer. It makes you a programmer who knows what tools to use to improve and streamline their work. It can save you half a lifetime you'd have otherwise spent looking for something the old fashioned way, and give your brain the room to work on other tasks. Far from ruined, if you ask me.