Not only is it gambling, it has the full force of the industry that built the attention market behind it. I find it extremely hard to believe that these tools have not been optimised to keep developers prompting the same way tiktok keeps people scrolling.
It is really truly incredible that this mess of microscopic meat plumbing encodes everything we see, think, and do. Terrifying and amazing all at once.
Not GP. On the one hand I feel the sentiment. I lost my dad too when I was in my 30s, we knew it would happen but came sooner than expected and rather sudden. He also didn't leave much for us apart from his things.
And my SO struggles to recall details from long ago, and always appreciates when I reminisce from the time we met and so on. And I manage most of the finances and such, she'd be lost without some guide and credentials.
My first concern is that most SaaS companies have a track record for not sticking around. Will this be operational in 10 years, let alone 20 years?
Another is privacy. The things I want to say might be very private, either personal or like I mentioned credentials. SaaS companies have a rather poor track record when it comes to privacy, from data breaches to outright selling data. I'm weary of trusting a party I know nothing about.
There are some other minor points but those are the ones that made me immediately go "yeah but no".
From where I stand this thing is going to provide great leverage to those who don’t simply just write code. I personally doubt the thing will ever get to a place where it can be trusted to operate alone - it needs a team of people and to go super fast you need more people.
Moreover, the price won’t be high due to competition.
I’ve changed my view on LLMs as being good, as long as competition is fierce.
Except that companies are not a black box, at every step there is a human making a comprehensible decision (probably with a paper trail). Yes, they dilute accountability to nearly nothing in some cases, but LLMs are sufficiently opaque to claim (ingenuously) that “nobody is responsible”.
So you're aware of accountability dilution AND the opacity of LLMs making them not responsible for anything, therefore you agree with the point that was made.
I guess your point could be:
LLMs are just another level of capitalistic opacity to maximize opacity and dilution of accountability.
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