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I think he's right, and I hate it. I'm also depressed by his endgame, which he glosses over - LLMs prevent the gradual buildup of expertise through hard, repea

I think he's right, and I hate it. I'm also depressed by his endgame, which he glosses over - LLMs prevent the gradual buildup of expertise through hard, repeated, work. All our handwriting (and hell, even our grammar) is basically trash, because who can be arsed putting in the time to write beautifully with a pen when you can just fling out an email? LLMs will cause an analogous decline in code and coders - every codebase a cesspit of messy mediocrity in outputs, authors, and professional culture. Fuck the future, man.

bigiain 2y ago
> LLMs will cause an analogous decline in code Which will lead to worse code being published at a way faster rate that good code used to be published. Which will be used to train future versions of the LLMs, which will amplify the decline in code. > Fuck the future As the article points out, this is not the future, it's the present. Fuck the present.
sabbaticaldev 2y ago
> LLMs will cause an analogous decline in code and coders - every codebase a cesspit of messy mediocrity in outputs, authors, and professional culture. and we will be paid (a lot) to make them barely work. Most car owners can’t fixes their cars and the ones that destroys theirs are the ones that pay the biggest bills