AI has got me learning the saxophone

The ease with which you can get something working using AI has come as a bit of shock to me. Worse still, the solutions it comes up with (and the conversations you can have with it) seem to indicate that it “knows” what it is doing and the code it writes is actually pretty good. Every now and then I catch it out, which is pleasing, but I’m sure that each time this happens something is written down in ledger somewhere and the mistake will not be repeated…..

As someone who spent a lifetime learning how to put solutions together, this is a bit worrying. I’m not sure anyone can do what I do without some of my skills, but I’m going to have to ditch a whole bunch of coding smarts I’ve spent years acquiring and instead spend my time specifying and analysing code and then discussing it with a machine. Ho hum. It was ever thus I suppose. My intimate knowledge of the George III operating system turned out to have a finite shelf life too.

Anyhoo, as a partial antidote to all this I’ve started learning to play the saxophone. AI can learn lots of things, but it is going to be a long time before it can come up with an embouchure like mine….