Rahul Sonwalkar, founder and CEO of Julius AI, questions why users reject AI-generated writing but accept AI-generated code without similar scrutiny
Dhruv Batra replies that people are not compilers.
@0interestrates Because you are not a compiler.
rahul@0interestrateswhy do people (including me) have an aversion to AI writing but not as much to AI code? if a piece of text smells AI i stop reading it but i use things coded entirely with AI every day
@max_spero_ what do we think
rahul@0interestrateswhy do people (including me) have an aversion to AI writing but not as much to AI code? if a piece of text smells AI i stop reading it but i use things coded entirely with AI every day
Compilers
All about feeling & where it arises from
Code is removed from the final product What you feel is pixels and UX, not variable names or code architecture
People who took great joy in perfectly crafted elegant code, and who derived feeling from the code, not the final app, tend to also dislike AI code
With writing, the underlying code and published app are the same thing.
The act of writing is the same as the act of making writing. But the act of writing code is not the same as the act of making an app.
Similar problem occurs with AI art and the transition between prompt and picture. If you found great joy in the 10hr process of painting, you probably hate image generators. But if you don’t care about the act of painting, and just want a picture, AI art is great.
rahul@0interestrateswhy do people (including me) have an aversion to AI writing but not as much to AI code? if a piece of text smells AI i stop reading it but i use things coded entirely with AI every day