LLMs are indeed displacing labour. Junior IT roles are drying up in places. Translation and art are also becoming harder to earn from.

They always have a choice, it just doesn't make them as much.

There was Lavabit, though that's an example of just one such event.

Edit: and to some extent Apple, at least in the past.

I am on this very forum as an explicit effort to counterbalance that very view. You have my strong agreement.

I didn't even realize that this is (allegedly) written with AI. If it's AI, then it's the kind of AI writing that's closer to the real deal and that I want to see more widely applied if AI is to be used.

AI slop

No. I reject this framing. It is none of anybody's business how "secure" my device ever is. A smartphone is a piece of electronics, and not a tamper evident identity device.

Which is why that's not what it does. It asks you to input the hostname instead, just like deleting a repo in Github does.

I know how it works. Please don't nit-pick. It's an interruption that forces the user to confirm. That's what I meant.

I discussed this also here:

https://qht.co/item?id=46845740

It's not nitpicking. The nature of the interruption being different is material. I've lost files to automatically answering yes to rm -i y/n confirm. Typing the hostname itself is different enough to get me, at least to stop and go wait, hold on. And snap me out of doing the wrong one. Especially an SSH gateway machine.

The good rephrasing will not include that voice.

I refuse to engage in "LLMs are evil, period" views. That's like walking out into a battlefield with a samurai sword, while your enemy has Gatling guns. You'll be shredded. The pressure to survive means new tools have to be examined and incorporated as and when needed. The resources needed to run a 24B LLM on a gaming GPU are not costing the earth.

It's just the current moral panic. The views aren't even relevant; LLMs will either stick around because they're useful or the industry will collapse if they're not.

And even if people still don't like them, they'll eventually stop caring about hating them.