The analogy meanders a bit in getting to the point, but I generally enjoyed the journey of the read and also, I think this is starting to look like an increasingly important perspective.
Increasingly I've been asking the LLM to do things that are only seconds of work to do manually on my own. Earlier in the process of learning how to use these things I think that was a somewhat reasonable decision in the name of learning how these things work.
Now... It's maybe the case that getting a bit more practice in with keeping on top of how we do things the manual way ... might still have value? both for the token cost and perhaps for the value that gets unlocked through understanding your systems a little better?
I'm also a little torn since the leaders in the field of "tokens for everything" like Cherny and Karpathy are pretty vocal about not writing any code on their own anymore. While they also don't really pay for tokens the way the rest of us do (I'm out of pocket for mine) is there something to be said for joining that frontier wave of developers?
Increasingly I've been asking the LLM to do things that are only seconds of work to do manually on my own. Earlier in the process of learning how to use these things I think that was a somewhat reasonable decision in the name of learning how these things work.
Now... It's maybe the case that getting a bit more practice in with keeping on top of how we do things the manual way ... might still have value? both for the token cost and perhaps for the value that gets unlocked through understanding your systems a little better?
I'm also a little torn since the leaders in the field of "tokens for everything" like Cherny and Karpathy are pretty vocal about not writing any code on their own anymore. While they also don't really pay for tokens the way the rest of us do (I'm out of pocket for mine) is there something to be said for joining that frontier wave of developers?