[marliechiller]

> "For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading"

Such a great point and one which I hadn't considered. With LLMs, we've flipped this equation, and it's having all sorts of weird consequences. Most obviously for me is how much more time I'm spending on code reviews. Its massively increased the importance of making the PR as digestible as possible for the reviewer, as now both author and reviewer are much closer to equal understanding of the changes compared to if the author had written the PR solely by themselves. Who knows what other corollaries there are to this reversal of reading vs writing

[lxgr]

Yes, just like painting a picture used to be extremely time-consuming compared to looking at a scene. Today, these take roughly the same effort.

Humanity has survived and adapted, and all in all, I'm glad to live in a world with photography in it.

That said, part of that adaptation will probably involve the evolution of a strong stigma against undeclared and poorly verified/curated AI-generated content.