> Some days I feel like we’re also being gaslit by LLM providers. Just look at any AI related subreddit, and you’ll see people having completely opposite experi

> Some days I feel like we’re also being gaslit by LLM providers. Just look at any AI related subreddit, and you’ll see people having completely opposite experiences, with the same exact model, with the same prompt, on the same day. If you code with AI long enough you’ll be able to relate. One day it’s amazing, the next day it’s incredibly stupid. > Are they throttling the GPUs? Are these tools just impossible to control? What the fuck is going on? Money and dreams. As everyone knows there’s an obscene amount of money invested in these tools of course. The capitalist class is optimistic their money can finally do the work for them directly instead of having to hire workers. But more than that, AI is something that’s been alluring to humans forever. I’m not talking about cyberpunk fantasies I’m talking about The Mechanical Turk, Automata in the Middle Ages, Talos[0]. The desire to create an artificial mind is, if not hardwired into us, at least culturally a strong driver for many. We’re at a point where the test of the computer age for determining if we built AI was so utterly destroyed it’s unclear how to go about judging what comes next. The hype is understandable if you view if you step back and view it through that lens. Maybe we are at an inflection point and just a bit more scaling will bring us the singularity. Maybe we’ve seen a burst of progress that’ll mostly stall from a consumer perspective for another 5-10 years, like all of the major AI moments before. If you want to use them effectively it’s the same as any tool. Understand what they are good at and where they flounder. Don’t give up your craft, use them to elevate it. [0]: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/02/ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies-artificial-life https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/02/ancient-myths-reve... Not quite a source but it’s a fun read from 2019 about this.