I was thinking about starting a new creative project recently. But then I thought - with how quickly AI is advancing, in just a few years an AI will probably be able to do this in just minutes. So it made me feel kind of apathetic and think, “Why should I bother starting this big project now if an AI could do it for me in a few years?”

I’m curious if others feel this way or if the advancement of AI is making people less motivated to start big, creative projects since the work could just be automated by an AI soon anyways. It could increase apathy and make people feel like “why bother?” Am I overthinking this? Does the possibility of AI taking over certain tasks in the future make you less motivated to start projects and learn new skills? Would love to hear others’ thoughts on this!

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    41 year ago

    Not even.

    I’m shit on ansible because it’s really cheesy and weak. But that’s how the bills get paid some days.

    Now I put the task into chatgpt and even 3.5 will give me a 70% solution I can fuck with and send back “hey will this work” and let it correct my indentation - fuck that - so it’ll probably run.

    That’s like 90% of the work there, and it’s only an hour in. I’m not chuffed at ‘cheating’, as I know I could have gotten there without the paper to cheat off, but I would have wasted far too long. And Ansible will die either through its own brontosaurus layout or IBM will snshittify it to the point people need to churn away anyway. Then maybe it’ll be to something that brings me joy and I’ll want to do more and not less.