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2037 maybe, but four years isn't very long.
Four years is an eternity in software, especially now that we can have LLMs write the first draft. Transformers were only invented six years ago after all. Some people are even very optimistically projecting that we'll reach the singularity in the next three.
> Even if an LLM could provide me with a recipe that perfectly suits what I’m looking for, I wouldn’t want to give up the experience of using a recipe search engine and browsing through a large collection of recipes. Even if an LLM could provide me with restaurant recommendations based on my preferences, I’d still seek out a map-based UX for exploring the variety present in my vicinity. The desire to replace all UX w…
> If business software (sheets, Photoshop, CAD etc.) can be sped up with chat input, it will be, and people will be expected to use the quickest UI. I have a hard time seeing chat input become the primary UI for that class of applications, unless you can delegate complete tasks to it. As an analogy, for driving a car, I can see voice commands replacing the steering wheel if we reach full self-driving capabilities, bu…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
2037 maybe, but four years isn't very long.
Four years is an eternity in software, especially now that we can have LLMs write the first draft. Transformers were only invented six years ago after all. Some people are even very optimistically projecting that we'll reach the singularity in the next three.
Nevertheless a nice and agreeable read.
I might try it.
Not clear to me if the author actually uses LLMs to do meaningful work, or is speculating about how they might be used.
I've written about 2500 lines of F# for the first time in the past 1.5 weeks using ChatGPT-4 to guide me. It has been an constant back and forth, iterative process. My decades of development experience factored in heavily to guide the process. I would've have been at maybe a quarter the progress without ChatGPT, or given up entirely on F# as my language.
I don't think that iterative aspect will be eliminated any time soon for AI-supported complex, creative processes. It's no different from tweaking inputs to a Photoshop filter until your experienced brain decides things look right.
To that end you need to know roughly what looks "right" before you use an LLM. This will all become second nature to the average developer in the next 5-10 years.
Ok. I appreciate they didn't use Medium as a blog post. There's a lot of good engineering knowledge currently locked behind the Medium "sign in" interface. It's dumb and stupid. But just to voice an opinion, please kill the lengthy paragraph levels of fluff in blog posts. I don't want to say my opinion is influenced by shitty blog recipes and research papers, but it is. So stop it. Just say what you need to say in bu…
While I agree some longform articles could use a bulleted summary, I think the act of blog-writing is as much an exercise of the writer coming to terms with the subject as us enjoying the piece. Abridging an idea comes easier after exploring its breadth and width, and I am supportive of anyone who tries it out in the open.
Writing in long form is its own process of mental synthesis.
This will come together with the downfall of search, a prime driver why so much knowledge was published on the web. Search will start to drown in an explosion of generated AI content, and the case to publish your knowledge for the sake of SEO marketing will diminish.