I think this would have been considerably more interesting and would have made you a much better programmer than prompting claude for 2 hours - but then I actually enjoy computational design, that’s why it matters to me.
I can’t believe you actually did the meme:
Again, we’re talking about a person who was struggling with a toolpath - it’s not all about you. I don’t know why you’re interested in teaching the AI that belongs to billion dollar corporations - I prefer do my non-profit work for charities and community groups instead - I find it considerably more rewarding.
There is a pattern here that AI does the things you haven’t got time to do or to learn - at which point I say, just buy some rope and ask the AI to live the rest of your life for you - I find it depressing as hell that we have a society that is more passionate about teaching AI than it is about teaching kids.
Honestly, it sounds like your primary concern is speed - fair enough, we live in an extractive, competitive and exploitative economy where your ability to feed yourself is linked to your willingness to accept that - but I don’t want to be a professional prompt jockey, I don’t want to be surrounded by professional AI users - I think there’s a value to craft, to engineering, to programming, to studying and generally to living and having time to think. I love it when you ask a person and they can tell you about the finer points of galvanization, when they can tell me the history of clay and lime in the area, when we can get dusty, muddy and tired, when I can save 2 hours off my computation time by rethinking an issue - in all of this you’re celebrating how much less you have to think, and I have to wonder what the point of being sentient even is? We’re human beings, not human doings right?
None of the things you describe are the kind of world I’m interested in where skills and knowledge are locked up inside proprietary systems and you’re a fool if you think that these tools will maintain democratic access.
And you know AI isn’t making you feel that you are smart and capable, in fact you think that you 100% cannot do the things it does - this would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad.