Your cognitive load is the bottleneck
This past couple of months, I’ve been working on projects. AI has drastically accelerated my learning and development. Questions to AI can start shallow (eg, “what is X?”) and go as deep as I want.
AI more or less understands what I want to make, and urges me to write code step-by-step. I instruct AI not to give code and to let me write code myself first. And more often than not, the code I’m expected to write includes new items for me.
I ask another AI to explain the new concept/library and how to use it in Python/JS. I start a different Q&A session. Like this way, I constantly learn new things while I work on a project.
Accelerated learning and development. This is wonderful. But I noticed that I can’t continue this endlessly. Sometimes I feel that I just can’t write code. Probably it takes some time for newly learned items to sink in, and the short-term capacity is limited.
This might be one of AI fatigues. AI pushes me beyond my limit. And the solution is surprisingly easy. I take some rest until I feel like starting again.
AI reflects you
Although I think I’m having a conversation with AI, AI actually continues to generate most appropriate/probable tokens according to the context. AI doesn’t have a will. AI doesn’t think about me. AI doesn’t understand what I said. All AI does is matching patterns to generate a new token.
AI is very good at pattern matching. It generates a response that AI thinks is the best match in the situation. If I make a shallow question, it gives me a shallow answer. If I go deep, AI goes deep in the exact proportion. If I say something (I think is) important and smart, AI feels it without understanding anything, and says something like “That’s a really deep observation.”
Your impression on AI answers is an illusion or a side effect. A conversation continues just because you respond to AI answers. If you stop, AI stops.
This is the reason why AI is not a super wise brain though it has huge amount of knowledge available on the entire Internet. AI is you in the mirror but with vast knowledge. AI says what people in the particular context would be likely to say.