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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by IAmGraydon »

bdangubic wrote: post #68
ryeats wrote: post #14

You know that teammate that makes more work for everyone else on the team because they do what they are asked to do but in the most buggy and incomprehensible way, that when you finally get them to move on to another team and you realize how much time you spent corralling them and fixing their subtle bugs and now when they are gone work doesn't seem like so much of a chore. That's AI.

smart people are reading comments like and going “I am glad I am in the same market as people making such comments” :)

I’m glad for now. Understanding how to utilize AI to your advantage is still an edge at the moment, but it won’t be long before almost everyone figures it out.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by darthcircuit »

blibble wrote: post #42
ryeats wrote: post #14

You know that teammate that makes more work for everyone else on the team because they do what they are asked to do but in the most buggy and incomprehensible way, that when you finally get them to move on to another team and you realize how much time you spent corralling them and fixing their subtle bugs and now when they are gone work doesn't seem like so much of a chore. That's AI.

> You know that teammate now imagine he can be scaled indefinitely you thought software was bad today? imagine Microsoft Teams in 5 years time

I’m not even looking forward to Microsoft teams on Monday.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by bdangubic »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #81
bdangubic wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

smart people are reading comments like and going “I am glad I am in the same market as people making such comments” :)

I’m glad for now. Understanding how to utilize AI to your advantage is still an edge at the moment, but it won’t be long before almost everyone figures it out.

it’ll be years because 87.93% of SWEs are subpar like the post I made comment on.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by [deleted] »

tombarys wrote: post #2

I am a book publisher & I love technology. It can empower people. I have been using LLM chatbots since they became widely available. I regularly test machine translation at our publishing house in collaboration with our translators. I have just completed two courses in artificial intelligence and machine learning at my alma mater, Masaryk University, and I am training my own experimental models (for predicting bestse…

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Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by mwigdahl »

andersmurphy wrote: post #43
billy99k wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can think that..and you will eventually be left behind. AI is not going anywhere and can be used as a performance booster. Eventually, it will be a requirement for most tech-based jobs.

This reminds me of crypto’s “have fun being poor”. Except now it’s “have fun being left behind/being unemployed”. The more things change the more things stay the same.

Yes, and it was exactly the same with compilers. All hype and fad -- everyone who's serious about software development writes in assembly.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by ookblah »

bdangubic wrote: post #68
ryeats wrote: post #14

You know that teammate that makes more work for everyone else on the team because they do what they are asked to do but in the most buggy and incomprehensible way, that when you finally get them to move on to another team and you realize how much time you spent corralling them and fixing their subtle bugs and now when they are gone work doesn't seem like so much of a chore. That's AI.

smart people are reading comments like and going “I am glad I am in the same market as people making such comments” :)

seriously, the near future is going to be:

1) people who reject it completely for whatever reason. 2) people who use it lazily and produce a lot of garbage (lets be honest, this is probably going to happen a lot which is why maybe group #1 hates this future. reminds me of the outsourcing era) 3) people who selectively use it to their advantage.

no point in groups 1 and 3 trying to convince each other of anything.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by jdietrich »

As a professional writer, the author of this post is likely a better writer than 99.99% of the population. A quick skim of his blog suggests that he's comfortably more intelligent than 99% of people. I think it's totally unsurprising that he isn't fully satisfied with the output of LLMs; what is remarkable is that someone in that position still finds plenty of reasons to use them.

Now consider someone further down the scale - someone at the 75th, 50th or 25th percentile. The output of an LLM very quickly goes from "much worse than what I could produce" to "as good as anything I could produce" to "immeasurably better than anything I could hope to ever produce".

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by antegamisou »

jdietrich wrote: post #88

As a professional writer, the author of this post is likely a better writer than 99.99% of the population. A quick skim of his blog suggests that he's comfortably more intelligent than 99% of people. I think it's totally unsurprising that he isn't fully satisfied with the output of LLMs; what is remarkable is that someone in that position still finds plenty of reasons to use them. Now consider someone further down th…

Idk, LLM writing style somehow almost always ends up sounding like an insufferable smartass Redditor spiel. Maybe it's only appealing to the respective audience.

Re: I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

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Post by billy99k »

andersmurphy wrote: post #43
billy99k wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can think that..and you will eventually be left behind. AI is not going anywhere and can be used as a performance booster. Eventually, it will be a requirement for most tech-based jobs.

This reminds me of crypto’s “have fun being poor”. Except now it’s “have fun being left behind/being unemployed”. The more things change the more things stay the same.

A bit different when you actually see the results.

A guy I went to highschool with complains endlessly about AI generated art and graphics (he's an artist) and like you, just wants to bury his head in the sand.

Consumers don't care if art is generated by AI or humans and in a short period of time, you won't be able to tell the difference.

With the money being poured into AI by all major tech companies, you will be unemployed if you don't keep up with AI.

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