In a comment in response to my recent post about A.I. in code development, J. Peterson made a very trenchant observation: Software developers used to reach out to each other for coding advice. Now we increasingly reach out to A.I. instead. Or, in J. Peterson’s words: “Social aspects of software development, slowly slipping away.”<\/p>\n
I wonder how many aspects of life this is happening to. Where once we formed human communities around giving mutual advice and support, now we are each working in little bubbles, talking only with our A.I. helpers. In such diverse fields of practice as cooking, woodworking, music, painting, creative writing, and so on, more and more people are turning to machines rather than to each other.<\/p>\n
I fear that this may be one of those one-way cultural journeys. Once we have all gone there, there may no longer be a way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a comment in response to my recent post about A.I. in code development, J. Peterson made a very trenchant observation: Software developers used to reach out to each other for coding advice. Now we increasingly reach out to A.I. instead. Or, in J. Peterson’s words: “Social aspects of software development, slowly slipping away.” I … Continue reading “Asking an A.I. rather than other people”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28870,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28869\/revisions\/28870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}