>but I can feel my brain engaging less with the problem than I'm used to
With me it has been the opposite, perhaps because I was anti-AI before and because I know it is gonna make mistake.
My most intense AI usage:
Goal: Homelab is my hobby and I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent via Proton VPN, fully.
I am used to tools such Ansible and Linux operating system, but there were like 3 different tools to manage the torrents, plus a bunch of firewall rules so in case Provon VPN drops, everything stops working instead of using my real IP Address snitching me to my ISP.
I wanted everything to be as automated as possible, Ansible, so if everything catches on fire, I can run Ansible playbook and bring everything back online.
The whole setup took me 3 nights and I couldn't stop thinking about it during the day, like how can I solve this or that, the solution Perplexity/ChatGPT gave me broke something else so how could I solve that, etc.
I am using these tools more like a Google Search alternative than AI per se, I can see when it made mistakes because I know what I am asking it to help me with, homelab.
I don't wanna to just copy and paste, and ironically, I have learned a ton about Promox ( where I run my virtual containers and virtual machine ).
I always say that I don't wanna just answers, show me how did you get to that conclusion so I can learn it myself.
As long as you are aware that this is a tool and that it makes mistakes the same way as somebody's reply in any forum, you are good and should still feel motivated.
If you are using AI tools just for copy/paste expecting things to work without caring to understand what is actually happening (companies and IT teams worldwide), then you have a big problem.
With me it has been the opposite, perhaps because I was anti-AI before and because I know it is gonna make mistake.
My most intense AI usage:
Goal: Homelab is my hobby and I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent via Proton VPN, fully.
I am used to tools such Ansible and Linux operating system, but there were like 3 different tools to manage the torrents, plus a bunch of firewall rules so in case Provon VPN drops, everything stops working instead of using my real IP Address snitching me to my ISP.
I wanted everything to be as automated as possible, Ansible, so if everything catches on fire, I can run Ansible playbook and bring everything back online.
The whole setup took me 3 nights and I couldn't stop thinking about it during the day, like how can I solve this or that, the solution Perplexity/ChatGPT gave me broke something else so how could I solve that, etc.
I am using these tools more like a Google Search alternative than AI per se, I can see when it made mistakes because I know what I am asking it to help me with, homelab. I don't wanna to just copy and paste, and ironically, I have learned a ton about Promox ( where I run my virtual containers and virtual machine ). I always say that I don't wanna just answers, show me how did you get to that conclusion so I can learn it myself.
As long as you are aware that this is a tool and that it makes mistakes the same way as somebody's reply in any forum, you are good and should still feel motivated.
If you are using AI tools just for copy/paste expecting things to work without caring to understand what is actually happening (companies and IT teams worldwide), then you have a big problem.