Eight more months of agents
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Eight more months of agents
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#2In the past couple days I've become less skeptical of the capabilities of LLMs and now more alarmed by them, contra the author. I think if we as a society continue to accept the development of LLMs and the control of them by the major AI companies there will be massively negative repercussions. And I don't mean repercussions like "a rogue AI will destroy humanity" per se, but these things will potentially cause massive social upheaval, a large amount of negative impacts on mental health and cognition, etc. I think if you see LLMs as powerful but not dangerous you are not being honest.
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#3> It sounds like someone saying power tools should be outlawed in carpentry.
I see this a lot here
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#4I don't trust the idea of "not getting", "not understanding", or "being out of touch" with anti-LLM (or pro-LLM) sentiment. There is nothing complicated about this divide. The pros and cons are both as plain as anything has ever been. You can disagree - even strongly - with either side. You can't "not understand".
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#5Related. Others?
How I program with agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655 - June 2025 (295 comments)
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#6> Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful
If that is true, why should one invest in learning now rather than waiting for 8 months to learn whatever is the frontier model then?
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#7> It sounds like someone saying power tools should be outlawed in carpentry. I see this a lot here
All metaphors break down at a certain point, but power tools and generative AI/LLMs being compared feels like somebody is romanticizing the art of programming a bit too much.
Copyright law, education, just the sheer scale of things changing because of LLMs are some things off the top of my head why "power tools vs carpentry" is a bad analogy.
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#8> Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful If that is true, why should one invest in learning now rather than waiting for 8 months to learn whatever is the frontier model then?
snarky answer: so you can be that 'AI guy' at your office that everyone avoids in the snackroom
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#9> Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful If that is true, why should one invest in learning now rather than waiting for 8 months to learn whatever is the frontier model then?
It's not like you need to take a course. The frontier models are the best, just using them and their harnesses and figuring out what works for your use case is the 'investing in learning'.
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#10> Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful If that is true, why should one invest in learning now rather than waiting for 8 months to learn whatever is the frontier model then?
How could it be actively harmful if it wasn't harmful last month when it was the frontier model?