augmentative

Yeah, it's funny, a word consisting both of an augmentative (the opposite of diminutive) and a diminutive.

Calculators & exoskeletons are augmentative after basic skills exist, otherwise the brain would be completely dependent on the external crutch.

My hope is decentralized and augmentative, but the worst case scenario is indeed centralized and substitutive.

The way LLMs work now…they are purely augmentative, the kind of experience that could work would be one of aid rather replacement.

Here it's so interesting and compelling a tale to me to hear Lick talking about augmentative computing being a bridge into a further beyond.

I am developing an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) iOS app for non-verbal adults that uses LLM-generated phrases to speed up communication.

I can't think of an augmentative suffix, only prefixes (super- and things like that).

Also, is there an augmentative suffix as well that I don’t know about?

Purely augmentative tools that don't work without input.

GenAI in the programming domain is augmentative.

But this kind of stuff is truly augmentative: representing complex ideas in easily-searchable vector spaces, making connections in datasets too vast for humans to comb through alone, that's actual value.

The products we've built so far are power-centralized, but augmentative.

What are those "augmentative" jobs that fresh CS grads can transition to?

When I say "this coffee is so bitter I'll literally die", I'm using literally as an augmentative, as an exaggeration.

You can also use prefixes like "Mega" as an augmentative.

What happened with it is what happened with "very" a much longer time ago: it started being used as a generic augmentative adverb and started losing its specific meaning.