I share this particular cynicism.

I have a list of ideas a mile long that gets longer every day, and LLMs help me burn through that list significantly faster.

However, the older I get, the more distraught I get that most people I meet "IRL" are simply not sitting on a list of problems they simply lack time to solve. I have... a lot of emotions around this, but it seems to be the norm.

If someone doesn't see or experience problems and intuitively start working out how they would fix them if they only had time, the notion that they could pair program effectively ideas that they didn't previously have with an LLM is absurd.

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skeledrew 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also one of those with a mile-long ideas list that I can finally now burn through. I gotta say, it feels good!

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oro44 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah and frankly the innovation would occur irrespective of llm’s.

Would it be harder? Sure. And perhaps the difficulty adds an additional cost of passion being a necessary condition to embark on the innovation. Passion leads to really good stuff.

My personal fear is we get landfill sites of junk software produced. To some extent it should be costly to convert an idea to a concept - the cost being thinking carefully so what you put out there is somewhat legible.

	▲	peteforde 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it'd be better if people kept their inner Oppenheimer in check. However, I suspect it's much more like the three types of people talking about 3D printers: - 3D printing jigs and prototypes has completely changed my workflow - I can't find any more things to print from the vendor provided gallery - why on earth would I want a 3D printer, you guys are geeks LLMs are not creating a risk that nihilist socialites will disrupt how device drivers get written.