If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I’d have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.
Powertools and machinery still require knowledge on how to do the work properly, account for future maintenance, test for leaks, etc.
Which is not what everyone is trying to do with “AI”. The “tool” is supposed to replace all necessity of trained and knowleadgeable workers and at some point the workers themselves.
I think it’s spot on. Even if you use power tools you need to know what kind of screw goes where. But it sure goes a whole lot faster to use power tools.
Sounds to me from the article that this is a seasoned engineer who just doesn’t want to use the tools she’s being handed.
Oh you’d hire the one installing lead pipes and eating asbestos sandwhiches while drinking round-up? Because corporations told me none of those are bad.
This is a strawman argument, and not really related to “ai” in any way.
If i was going to twist this to relate to sloperators though, in your analogy it would be akin to hiring either an old school plumber using hand tools who gets the job done with no leaks, vs a 16 year old kid with a full Milwaukee toolset thats never done a job without causing Significant leaks and damage to clients homes and the businesses reputation.
If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I’d have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.
If a drill started to make things that looked like holes but weren’t, I’d go back to hand tools.
That is a very poor equivalence.
Powertools and machinery still require knowledge on how to do the work properly, account for future maintenance, test for leaks, etc.
Which is not what everyone is trying to do with “AI”. The “tool” is supposed to replace all necessity of trained and knowleadgeable workers and at some point the workers themselves.
I think it’s spot on. Even if you use power tools you need to know what kind of screw goes where. But it sure goes a whole lot faster to use power tools.
Sounds to me from the article that this is a seasoned engineer who just doesn’t want to use the tools she’s being handed.
Oh you’d hire the one installing lead pipes and eating asbestos sandwhiches while drinking round-up? Because corporations told me none of those are bad.
No, I’d hire the one using power tools and PEX pipes. Not the one stuck in the 19th century.
This is a strawman argument, and not really related to “ai” in any way.
If i was going to twist this to relate to sloperators though, in your analogy it would be akin to hiring either an old school plumber using hand tools who gets the job done with no leaks, vs a 16 year old kid with a full Milwaukee toolset thats never done a job without causing Significant leaks and damage to clients homes and the businesses reputation.
Again, its not a good comparison either way.