Something Big Is Happening
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Something Big Is Happening
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#2So long as perceived LLM skill is still "spiky" - e.g. within a domain, still showing relatively high variation in ability (often depending on the task or user, to be fair), people will continue to dismiss it
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#3> AI can already read contracts, summarize case law, draft briefs, and do legal research at a level that rivals junior associates.
And best of all, when it messes up, it doesn't get sued!
You do.
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#4> AI can already read contracts, summarize case law, draft briefs, and do legal research at a level that rivals junior associates. And best of all, when it messes up, it doesn't get sued! You do.
It doesn’t mess up. Not any more.
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#5Here’s a counterpoint that attempts to argue an alternative view:
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#6All about AI taking over the world.
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#7I find these water-against-a-rock literary tones so tedious. Even the writer always seems to have to go back and put some of it in BOLD TEXT, supposedly highlighting the main ideas, but really optical affordances.
The truth of this seems much more banal. Computing has become a major drag. There have been tens of thousands of libraries that reinvent the wheel. Every operating system has become a toy. All major language systems have an absurd learning curve. Each important application is fortified by a giant corporation. Social media is self-important pop babble.
LLMs are surprisingly good at dealing with complex systems. I can fire one up and ask, for example, why this Swift code is not compiling. But why doesn’t my Swift editor explain that problem? Why is it a confusing question at all? The entire system was built from the ground up at enormous expense. Why do I seek outside help?
Our computing is full of whizzy animations and pointless Victorian ironmongery. All meaningless. AI is medicine, not the cure.
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#8> Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That's why they did it first.
They did it first because doing it first was easier. There are tons of examples around and code can be verified to work.
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#9Management is going to quickly start bisecting human engineers along lines of maximalists and minimalists. The minimalists will all be let go. A few bad things will happen. A few systems will strain under the pressure but itll be “worth it” in the same way that its cheaper to pay lawsuits than do a recall of a plane.
We arent innovating in other areas that might soften the blow. We dont have good support systems, social security, healthcare, or even demands in other areas. How many engineers are going to be plumbers and construction workers?
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#10I asked ai to summarise this blog post.
Jokes aside it should be noted that the author is a founder and ceo of an AI company, not to mention an active investor in the sector. (All disclosed in his "about" page)