The Human in the Noose: On the Special Hell of Marking an AI’s Homework
Here’s a (seeming) paradox: If you hang out with programmers, you probably know some senior, experienced, talented coders who are delighted with AI and can’t stop talking about how they’re producing the best code of their lives.
At the same time, you probably also know some coders who are equally senior and equally talented who are demoralized and even terrified about how bad the AI code they’re shipping is: “Man, I work in avionics, and my advice to you is just don’t ever fly on an airplane again. We’re producing history’s gnarliest tech debt at a scale never seen.”
How to resolve this paradox? What to make of two groups of people – both equally reliable narrators of their own experience – who are using the same tools to do the same job and having totally opposite experiences?
The answer is to be found in the rich history of...
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