A friend gave me a 3.25 floppy and told me it was this cool new game, with a new way of playing called 'first person' which confused the hell out of me until I played it.
* I'm learning a new programming language. "How do I do <some process> in <language>?" I get enough of an answer that I can experiment with the results.
* I have to write business emails. Instead of spending 20 minutes trying to think of the right politically correct terminology, I feed it the bullet points and it spits out a mostly proper email which I then spend another 5 minutes re-typing to get it the rest of the way.
* I've always wanted to start a blog, but I hate writing. Same idea as the previous point, but for blog posts.
I don't blindly trust it's output, but it saves me a ton of time in handling the to me bs extra stuff by filling in the edges.
I said something similar to my son a little while ago. He said "That's because you taught me to be polite to my elders. We're not that well behaved on our own."
Despite what we may think about our children (or "the youth of today"), they are basically the same as they've always been, behaving well for adults--mainly I suspect to keep the adults attention away from them.
I think that, as long as we keep the above in mind when we deal with the younger generation we'll be able to help to them rise above our mistakes.
A friend gave me a 3.25 floppy and told me it was this cool new game, with a new way of playing called 'first person' which confused the hell out of me until I played it.