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by dwedge 62 days ago
Will you do anything differently knowing this? Does the risk of LLMs being unaffordable to you in the near future make you wary about losing the skills?
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Open Models are currently within reach for most of the kind of writing I do I still decide what and why it generates what it does, I just don't do it manually

I'm not super worried, either I still do the last leg of the work, or I go back an abstraction level with my prompts and work there

The person I replied to couldn't code on a plane, so presumably either doesn't use or doesn't like open models
I don't think it would take very long to regain those skills either.
Yes, they do come back faster than learning from scratch. However, what’s possibly worrying is that our brains atrophy some faculties if we decided to skip the learning part altogether.