AI will confidently give you wrong answers or perfect answers to the wrong questions. The speaker argues that intelligent people succeed by asking the right questions and maintaining intellectual honesty. To use AI safely, you need to edit its output ruthlessly, since editing is the most demanding part of the process.
AI is tricky. It can give you a wrong answer with high confidence, but it can also give you a great answer to the wrong question, which is worse than useless. It's just plain dangerous. And it's just a multiplying force. I have the feeling that people that are smart were smart because they learned how to ask the right questions and be intellectually honest and not let go until they get something that clicks that makes sense. And here it's true, but it's like 10x or 100x because you have this multiplier in your hands. It's the same if you're not drilling down and if you don't have real-world experience, it can be very dangerous. I don't want to get AI slop sent over to me. You have to be the editor, and being the editor is the hardest work. And it's the same with code. It's actually the editing is what really counts.
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