| ▲ | lxgr an hour ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I find it particularly disillusioning to realize how deep the LLM brainworm is able to eat itself even into progressive hacker circles. Anything worth reading beyond this transparent and hopefully unsuccessful appeal to tribalism? Hackers have always tried out new technologies to see how they work – or break – so why would LLMs be any different? > the devaluation of our craft, in a way and rate we never anticipated possible. A fate that designers, writers, translators, tailors or book-binders lived through before us What is it with this perceived right to fulfilling, but also highly paid, employment in software engineering? Nobody is stopping anyone from doing things by hand that machines can do at 10 times the quality and 100 times the speed. Some people will even pay for it, but not many. Much will be relegated to unpaid pastime activities, and the associated craftspeople will move on to other activities to pay the bills (unless we achieve post-scarcity first). That's just human progress in a nutshell. If the underlying problem is that many societies define a person's worth via their employability, that seems like a problem best fixed by restructuring said societies, not by artificially blocking technological progress. "progressive hackers"... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ceejayoz an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Hackers have always tried out new technologies to see how they work – or break – so why would LLMs be any different? Who says we haven't tried it out? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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