one of the more frustrating canards that tech enthusiasts rely on in their discourse is the essentializing of AI as an artifact of certain technical stacks. this is why i wrote the post a while ago about "defining AI" (both broadly and specifically for my own needs)

I actually don’t need to be a programmer to be able to look at AI-generated art, translation, or written work to deem them inferior to what a very proficient human (that’s me) can produce.

It doesn’t take a tech insider to spot shoddy product being sold for a premium.

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  1. I honestly think the original poster asked about coding experience because of how pervasive LLM usage is in professional contexts in that domain.

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  2. whenever someone asks what your technical expertise is that allows you to have an opinion about AI, they're leaning on the prior work of other tech-essentialists who have similarly built up a shaky structure that predicates "AI" on the peculiar incidental details of any given system

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