Nothing about this usage is reasonable. It is detrimental in every conceivable way: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.
That's what I do, but I really wish I could tell them to fuck off with that shit.
Heh, guilty. Pretty much always something where I had an ambition to make a change but got distracted or didn't have time to work on it.
They aren't useful now, but even assuming they were, the fundamental issue is that it's extremely expensive to train and run them, and there is no current inkling of a business model where they actually make sense, financially. You would need to charge far more than what people could actually afford to pay to make them anywhere near profitable. Every AI company is burning through cash at an insane rate. When the bubble pops and the money runs out, no one will want to train and host them anymore for commercial purposes.
LLMs do not understand anything. There is no semantic understanding whatsoever. It is merely stochastic generation of tokens according to a probability distribution derived from linguistic correlations in its training data.
Also, it is incredibly common for engineers at businesses to have their engineers write code to automate away boilerplate and otherwise inefficient processes. Nowhere did I say that automation must always be done via open source tooling (though that is certainly preferable when possible, of course).
What do you think people and businesses were doing before all of this LLM insanity? Exactly what I'm describing. It's hardly novel or even interesting.
All of that can be automated with tools built for the task. None of this is actually that hard to solve at all. We should automate away pain points instead of boiling the world in the hopes that a linguistic, stochastic model can just so happen to accurately predictively generate the tokens you want in order to save a few fucking hours.
The hubris around this whole topic is astounding to me.
...regular coding, again. We've been doing this for decades now and this LLM bullshit is wholely unnecessary and extremely detrimental.
The AI bubble will pop. Shit will get even more expensive or nonexistent (as these companies go bust, because they are ludicrously unprofitable), because the endless supply of speculative and circular investments will dry up, much like the dotcom crash.
It's such an incredibly stupid thing to not only bet on, but to become dependent on to function. Absolute lunacy.
I got this too, but what was really odd was that the message was rendered differently in the Connect app. Really wondering how that's possible to do.
There's no way that's right. If that were the case, then woodpeckers would be the scourge of trees everywhere.
Nope, we call it master. The hand-wringing over the name was and still is absolutely asinine.
Absolutely insane. More than my mortgage. Really curious how much this person makes. Is it 50% of their net income? 70%? The sheer logicistics seem insane unless you're making a shitload of money (over 200k).
You mispronounced fascist. That's what all cybertruck owners are.