And it’s super worrying, because everyone I know and almost every colleague I have is suckling on the LLM teets right now, but they don’t realize that their enthusiasm affects the youth that we will have to rely on to maintain our projects once we retire. They’re gonna be so bad at it.
Adopting and maintaining software is hard enough as a good programmer. 😅😅
Imagine her in a book club and her own book comes up. Bet you she won’t even recognize it, or know what it’s about.
An excavator can also lift rocks that I can’t. But that’s really beside the point.
It doesn’t really matter which analogy you use, the fact is that I can do what an LLM can do, in my field. I can probably do a better job, because I know more current web APIs than an LLM has had time to train on because of limited human output.
You don’t get faster results with more developers though. You don’t make a baby in one month with 9 mothers either. You might have seen a small increase in development time with more than one dev on a single project but that doesn’t scale past more than a handful of devs, usually. At least not per feature.
The difference here is that I know as well as everyone else that I couldn’t possibly do what the excavator does with my own two hands, so the skill here becomes operating the vehicle itself. But what the LLM can do, I can do.
This is so often the argument when talking to LLM apologists/proponents, that “this is a shift just like any other before it”, but it isn’t. It sneakily resembles one, but it is not exactly like one. There are major differences that set it apart from previous shifts. This isn’t just a “paradigm shift”. We are no longer thinking of solutions on our own, so we are/will be losing the ability to do so, yet we are expected to be the judges as to whether the generated solutions are good or not. That doesn’t add up.
Once a few generations of “developers” have grown up with LLMs, it’ll eventually be like using a calculator to solve divisions with large numbers, yet still you have to check your work. But if you keep using the calculator, or you never even trained yourself to do the divisions by hand in the first place, you won’t be able to check the solution is correct.
The thing is, nobody knows how much effort I put into it versus the AI. There’s just no scenario where I could proudly take credit for using AI. Either I put in tons of work but others have no idea how much work is mine vs not, or I don’t do much work and I’ll know I don’t deserve credit.
Like I understand where you’re trying to come from here but I just can’t see myself winning with AI, against my own morals.
Me collaborating with a human is different. Then the other human and I will know how much work went into it, and at least two real people will share the knowledge of who did what.
I just think I wouldn’t be able to be proud of my work anymore. I wouldn’t feel good signing off on generated stuff. It’s not my work.
It’s like generating a poster for a movie or something. Taking credit for that is just scummy, you know? I know people don’t think anyone writes their own code anymore, professionally…
… but I would know. It would bother me.
IMO current LLMs are ideal for generating the filler for self-help books. You have like 10 pages worth of ideas to say, but the publisher demands a 250-page book.
lol okay. For a second there, with that previous comment you made, you made me think you actually thought LLMs were good for coding.
And just like a tool, it can be too dull, too sharp, or just wrong for the job.
I just close my eyes until I fall asleep. Eventually I’ll get tired. I’m mostly halfway tired already anyway, as a father of two young boys.
Indeed. Note also that I’m only certain about the user reporting, as I’ve done some reporting of my own. I stopped after a while though. There’s so much that it feels futile.
But, the other ways of determining should be possible too.
Note, I have only seen filters for the image search. But there’s definitely a lot of slop among the images even though you select to exclude slop. There’s just so much slop out there I guess.
Known sources, digital watermarks, and user-contributed reporting.
Fluxer is still easier though so I’ll stick to that for the time being. But I did consider Mumble when Discord started acting a fool. 😅👍
My pleasure, good luck!
Good tip for those who don’t have the ability to sail. 🏴☠️
I believe it’s possible? It’s not something I use but it could be worth looking into again if you prefer that.
Right. I feel like Matrix is overkill for my use case, and my friends’. We just want to game and talk with low resources. That’s it.
I remember when I used to use Mumble, it was pretty great. Although I had to host my own server for that, unfortunately. Is that still the case?
Recommend Jellyfin over Plex if you have the ability to switch.
Thank you for that clarification.
Preach! 🙌