I also wonder if bulk brain damage and disinhibition from 7+ COVID infections is an inciting factor.

The "find out" phase is going to make this decade look worse than leaded gasoline.

Guy 1 works at a rocket company and says he'd never use AI to design the part he works on, but uses it for little bits of code. Guy 2 works for a social media company and won't use AI for code, but uses it to write email reports to VPs. Guy 3 works at Microsoft and says AI is great as long as you don't use copilot.

They all think AI is good at stuff they don't understand and sucks at things they do.

It strikes me as the same old fallacy: "The most enthusiastic bitcoin and blockchain proponents are the ones who understand neither databases nor economics."

but it is a flight of fancy to suggest that extractive labor and outsourcing gives people that agency or control

even before we get to the "software that kills teenagers" part of the faustian pact

if i am honest the price of such, psychotic breaks, isn't worth the freedom of per request billing

If the cheap prompter can produce the same results, what are the arguments against this?

- copyright violation in the training material
- excessively high use of the world's resources for training and inference

If both of those were handled (that's a big if. Maybe someday, maybe not) what were the arguments be against choosing the cheap Proctor?

This is why code generation is not a solution to the problem.

Which problem? People will phrase it differently, but the basic idea is to outsource *the hard part*, which is analysis and phrasing requirements to guide the LLM.

LLMs suck at dealing with shitty specs. They even suck at dealing with good specs. They even suck at dealing with specs they themselves suggested.

Outsourcing Thought Is Going Great

On AI generated test code, and how mind-bogglingly stupid that is.

Mad Ramblings of a Cyber Arcanist (finkhaeuser.de)

So using LLMs isn't solving the problem, which is that thinking is hard.

A random sampling of tokens would actually be uniformly distributed… and obviously grammatically correct sentences is a clear sign that we are not randomly sampling tokens.

Are we talking about the same thing?