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by leidenfrost 42 days ago
Still, it's a tool.

Even if your tool learns to talk and to make decisions, it's still a tool, not a person. You're the person and the one responsible for the decisions you make based on your tools.

Going back from the analogy, the problem is that we conflated software <engineers> with "coders". A lot of people thought their job was to create code, we gave them a tool to generate a lot of code fast, and they truly think that "more code" = "more good"

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A hammer usually doesn't have the power to persuade people.
> it's still a tool, not a person.

Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.