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My summary of the post would be "LLMs have drastically increased demand for remote dev environments, making that business seemingly better than container hostin
by skeptrune 2y ago
My summary of the post would be "LLMs have drastically increased demand for remote dev environments, making that business seemingly better than container hosting."
I also feel like calling the LLMs "Robots" is needlessly confusing. "AI" or "Agent" would have been more fitting.
- gerdesj 2y ago"I also feel like calling the LLMs "Robots" is needlessly confusing. "AI" or "Agent" would have been more fitting." They are just computer programs. Why on earth is IT so bereft of creativity that it needs to invoke "robot". Robot is derived from a Czech word for forced labour or even slave. These things don't go "diddly diddly deep" like Twiggy, nor whatever R2D2 beeps. They are certainly not physical, which is attribute one for a "robot" (it's a thing not a non thing). If you replace the word robot with the word wankery, the article really starts to make sense. When you encounter various declensions and conjugations and so on, be careful to keep it real.
- Deebster 2y agoFor better or worse, describing software this way is fairly standard usage - e.g. robots.txt.
- gerdesj 2y agorobots.txt is famously ignored by many ... agents ... out of pure spite. That's a human thing.
- piva00 2y agoIt's semantics though, as pedantic as you want to be "robot" got the meaning of automatons in general, physical or virtual.