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This seems disingenuous. I can ask a generative AI "explain this ternary operator to me" or "walk me through why this causes a race condition"

I cannot ask the video game why my real guitar is out of tune, or diagnose why I'm holding the fret wrong.

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That implies that you did more than prompt the AI and actually learned whatever activity it is you are asking the AI about, because otherwise you wouldn't know to ask those questions. A person making music solely with AI won't ask about tuning their guitar because they don't have one and don't intend to use one.

One could also make hotdogs and eat them without developing any skill as a chef, but it's unlikely there would be thousands of blog posts complaining about the downsides of microwaved hotdogs every week.

If they came out with nutri-paste that gives you all of your nutrition in a grey slurry drink, and replaced everything in grocery stores with it, people would complain

And presumably there would be similarly thousands of posts saying things like "I love my nutri-paste, it lets me skip the boring part of cooking my meals straight to the eating and getting calories and vitamins which is the real purpose of eating anyways"

But nobody would be claiming that they are a chef or cooked up a novel meal, that is the point of the article.

None of that has anything to do with creativity, which is what the post is about.

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