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“Where is the shovelware?”… It’s Coming! Changing domain to writing and images and video you can see LinkedIn is awash with everyone generating everything by L

by tezza 1y ago

“Where is the shovelware?”… It’s Coming! Changing domain to writing and images and video you can see LinkedIn is awash with everyone generating everything by LLMs. The posting cadence has quickened too as people shout louder to raise their AI assisted voice over other people’s. We’ve all seen and heard the AI images and video tsunami So why not software (yet but soon)?? Firstly, Software often has a function and AI tool creations cannot make that work. Lovable/Bolt etc are too flakey to live up to their text to app promises. A shedload of horror debugging or a lottery win of luck is required to fashion an app out of that. This will improve over time but the big question is, by enough? And secondly, like on LinkedIn above: perhaps the standards of the users will drop? LinkedIn readers now tolerate the llm posts, it is not a mark of shame. Will the same reduction in standards in software users open the door to good-enough shovelware?

RachelF 1y ago
Software standards are already falling, sadly. I look at the recent problems with Microsoft Windows, Teams and Outlook and despair. How much of it is to be blamed on AI, and how much on a culture of making users test their products, I do not know.
- ares623 1y ago
  Yeah users' expectations of their software has definitely been declining. Everything has been enshittified so much that nothing phases them anymore.
rsynnott 1y ago
I mean, LinkedIn, even before the advent of LLMs, has been the worst and most bullshit-heavy of the social networks. There's a reason that r/LinkedInLunatics exists. "It can write a LinkedIn post" is not necessarily good evidence that it can do anything useful.
- bergie 1y ago
  Exactly what I wanted to say. LinkedIn was slop before there was AI slop. So that's probably where LLM generated stuff fits the best. That, and maybe Medium.
  - rsynnott 1y ago
    Even medium, you'll sometimes see people who can write properly on medium. LinkedIn is kind of fascinating in that, even before LLMs, everything highly rated on LinkedIn was in that grotesque almost content-free style beloved by LLMs.

by tezza 1y ago

RachelF 1y ago

Software standards are already falling, sadly. I look at the recent problems with Microsoft Windows, Teams and Outlook and despair. How much of it is to be blamed on AI, and how much on a culture of making users test their products, I do not know.

ares623 1y ago
Yeah users' expectations of their software has definitely been declining. Everything has been enshittified so much that nothing phases them anymore.

rsynnott 1y ago

I mean, LinkedIn, even before the advent of LLMs, has been the worst and most bullshit-heavy of the social networks. There's a reason that r/LinkedInLunatics exists. "It can write a LinkedIn post" is not necessarily good evidence that it can do anything useful.

bergie 1y ago
Exactly what I wanted to say. LinkedIn was slop before there was AI slop. So that's probably where LLM generated stuff fits the best. That, and maybe Medium.
- rsynnott 1y ago
  Even medium, you'll sometimes see people who can write properly on medium. LinkedIn is kind of fascinating in that, even before LLMs, everything highly rated on LinkedIn was in that grotesque almost content-free style beloved by LLMs.