It does, however, have direct parallels to the developers who believe they can just use AI without a learning curve because they can already write code, fail at doing so, and conclude that AI is terrible instead of learning how to use it.
It makes no sense to suppose that a special skill needs to be learned, or training done, to get good use out of something that is supposedly going to obviate huge swaths of intellectual work.
May be this is a bit of anachronism but this poem does not read as being anti-bicycle more so than it having hubris and lack of experience with new fangled thing (bicycle).
When someone passing through first rode a bicycle through my grandmother's hamlet, there was a general panic and someone even shrieked "the Devil comes, in two wheels!".
I vaguely remember reading somewhere about people seeing warriors on horseback for the first time calling them four legged demons or some such thing. I wonder what it would take to elicit that type of panicked response today?
A guy refusing any training and then immediately getting hurt doesn't really feel to me like it has the same skepticism for the actual technology.
Especially when basically the same thing could happen with a horse.
This! It's about what a clown this guy is and laughing at a small comeuppance.
It does, however, have direct parallels to the developers who believe they can just use AI without a learning curve because they can already write code, fail at doing so, and conclude that AI is terrible instead of learning how to use it.
It makes no sense to suppose that a special skill needs to be learned, or training done, to get good use out of something that is supposedly going to obviate huge swaths of intellectual work.
Nowhere is safe.
May be this is a bit of anachronism but this poem does not read as being anti-bicycle more so than it having hubris and lack of experience with new fangled thing (bicycle).
When someone passing through first rode a bicycle through my grandmother's hamlet, there was a general panic and someone even shrieked "the Devil comes, in two wheels!".
This was in the 1930s.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere about people seeing warriors on horseback for the first time calling them four legged demons or some such thing. I wonder what it would take to elicit that type of panicked response today?