Rich Hickey: Thanks AI
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#2It’s heartwarming to see Rich Hickey corroborating Rob Pike. All the recent LLM stuff has made me feel that we suddenly jumped tracks into an alternate timeline. Having these articulate confirmations from respected figures is a nice confirmation that this is indeed a strange new world.
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#5I dub this new phenomenon "slopbaiting"
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#6I have seen similar critiques applied against digital tech in general.
Don't get me wrong, I continue to use plain Emacs to do dev, but this critique feels a bit rich...
Technological change changes lots of things.
The verdict is still out on LLMs, much as it was out for so much of today's technology during its infancy.
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#7Looking forward to seeing all the slop enthusiasts pipe up with their own llm-oriented version of the age-old dril tweet:
"drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"
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#8Companies and people by and large are not forced to use AI. AI isn't doing things, people and corporations are doing things with AI.
I find it curious how often folks want to find fault with tools and not the systems of laws, regulations, and convention that incentivize using tools.
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#10Companies and people by and large are not forced to use AI. AI isn't doing things, people and corporations are doing things with AI. I find it curious how often folks want to find fault with tools and not the systems of laws, regulations, and convention that incentivize using tools.
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