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The junior will repeatedly ask the AI to delete the screenshots. Until he forgets what is the command to delete a file.

The engineer will wonder why his desktop is filled his screenshots, change the settings that make it happen, and forget about it.

That behavior happened for years before AI, but AI will make that problem exponentially worse. Or I do hope that was a bad example.

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Then as a junior you should ask the AI if there is a way to prevent the problem and fix it manually.

You might then argue that they don't know they should ask that; could just configure the AI once to say you are a junior engineer and when you ask the ai to do something, you also want it to help you learn how to avoid problems and prevent them from happening.

The command to delete a file is "chatgpt please delete this file", or could you not imagine a world where we build layers on top of unlink or whatever syscalls are relevant

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