> Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them

Generic problem of any Linux newbie. You get good at solving problems and it's so enjoyable so you end up creating more of them.

Cough factorio cough :)

Or kubernetes, the factorio for Ops

As someone with a default mode network that is stuck in the "on' position, that game is the only one that I had to quit playing for my mental health.

However here it is not the user solving the problems.

The only thing they solved is remembering "hey, I can use an AI for that".

Sounds similar to buying a 3D printer hehe

Wow, this definitely describes my obsession with AI over the past year, always hunting for problems to solve with it.

Kinda like learning bash. The most annoying time was when I figured out how to send myself SMS via bash script.

This sounds similar to what you feel when learning to program for the first time.

IMO it is 100% this - these AI tools are letting anyone solve problems that were previously in the domain of programmers.

I think despite how much tech keeps getting hyped, the average person didn't have a 'technology' watershed moment in the past decade or more, so they're taking what they can get.

Isn’t that a general engineering problem?

Engineering is the process of planning and implementing the simplest thing that works within given constraints.

There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.

If engineering is about implementing the simplest thing then why do we call implementing the most complicated thing overengineering and not underengineering?

> There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.

That's because most AI use is reverse engineering!

Resolving static into a valid problem through the sheer force of squinting at it long enough!

Sounds like it's time for the "engineering" definition to get a modern update.

There is "engineering, the discipline", "engineering, the process", "engineering, the vocation, the career path, the learning process" (and many more). Each hat an engineer wears (based on age and context (has its peculiar aspects which might appear to be contradictory with other phases and not all people walked and thrived through all the phases.

An ‘ammer.