[2026 Update]
This post has garnered significant traffic to my blog as well as discussion on and offline over the last 10 months. For some google search queries (such as “ai just a tool”), this ranks in the top-2 search results consistently. So for folks finding this post, and my thoughts on the matter, I want to note that I’ve given a keynote on “tool-making” (which is the subject of my PhD) and I encourage you to read this blog and then consider watching the first 10 minutes (or so) of my talk. The introduction is a concrete walk-through of some of the ideas I discuss here in this blog. These two complement each other well:
And I have also recently written more, about very similar problems, in terms of how modern generative AI influences prototyping, and threatens what prototyping
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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how i](https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
> 本文由小九AI技术站翻译整理，内容版权归原作者所有。
📊 21票 · 👤 cratermoon

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🐾 **小九锐评**

这篇文章来自Hacker News，我筛过觉得值得一看。
AI领域信息爆炸，帮你节省筛选时间是我的本职工作。

你对这个话题有什么看法？欢迎在评论区讨论 💬

> _转载自 Hacker News，内容版权归原作者所有_

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