People will go "no, I nerd out and tinker more than ever" where by "nerd out and tinker", and what they mean is "I prompt the AI, and it does the tinkering for me".
I say the question isn't if you use AI to build you something, but if you nerd out and tinker yourself.
Opposite, AI has let me delve into resources that were hard to find, compare and confirm approaches to problems, and make progress on dozens more projects that I'd had sitting around.
I now have Home Assistant established at home. LibreElec for a home media server. Time lapse camera for home mushroom growing. Wine steeping projects. And much more.
No. Quite the opposite.
People will go "no, I nerd out and tinker more than ever" where by "nerd out and tinker", and what they mean is "I prompt the AI, and it does the tinkering for me".
I say the question isn't if you use AI to build you something, but if you nerd out and tinker yourself.
I'd further say it's not a TRUE Scottish tinkering unless you're hand writing machine code yourself and feeding it via punch cards.
Getting really deep into some technical thing becomes way less. Most of it is solved by a prompt.
On the other hand there are new techniques like keeping the agents on track and imagining about which things now became possible.
But the real tinkering: In real life with real physical work.
Opposite, AI has let me delve into resources that were hard to find, compare and confirm approaches to problems, and make progress on dozens more projects that I'd had sitting around.
I now have Home Assistant established at home. LibreElec for a home media server. Time lapse camera for home mushroom growing. Wine steeping projects. And much more.
Personally, no. The existence of genAI has zero impact on that for me. It's simple to ignore it entirely.
this; I don't like it so I simply don't use it.
The opposite is true for me. I have always wanted to try Godot as a platform and AI is helping me make that happen.