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No, this did not force you to use AI.

People have been coding without using hands thanks to voice recognition for quite some time. https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

I will spare all my usual critique of AI because dang wants to ban me whenever I do. It doesn't mean all that doesn't stand.



Quote from the video:

> after three months I felt productive again

Rather pointless for a temporary injury. I’ve used these old fashioned speech UIs as well and they are a huge pain in the ass to set up and learn. LLMs with natural language understanding and code generation abilities are several orders of magnitude better.


Might as well try it, right? Not everything is so deep


I would argue for this, I guess, except that "forced me to write all my code with AI" is obvious misrepresentation. It doesn't sit well with me except as representative of the same over-egged hype that surrounded the Apple Vision Pro.


No, might as well not try it.

Please review my post history on why, the most upvoted is perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038893


Please do spare us.




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