It’s crazy. Literally the only valid thing you can say about LLM use is “in the hands of an experienced person LLMs can be a force multiplier”.

But no, we have to replace entire companies with it. All the problems of LLMs stem from inexperienced people using it (by inexperienced I mean not skilled in the domain in which the LLM is being applied).

▲ vkou 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not the problem.

There are two[1] problems. One is that a small group of people will own a critical part to all future economic activity. It's wealth consolidation at an unimaginable scale.

The other is that the reason LLMs produce so much fucking garbage isn't because their users suck at their jobs. These users were producing good to passable work for years before LLM slop started flooding the world.

It's because their jobs - their bosses - can't (or don't care to) tell the difference between good work and fucking garbage. If the computer said it's ok, ship it.

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[1] These two problems are not an exhaustive list by any means.

	▲	dotancohen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		`> One is that a small group of people will own a critical part to all future economic activity. It's wealth consolidation at an unimaginable scale.` You might want to read about the history of the term sabotage then. This actually is precedented. `> The other is that the reason LLMs produce so much fucking garbage isn't because their users suck at their jobs ... bosses can't tell the difference between good work and fucking garbage.` The bosses usually can. However, there is no quick, objective way to do that. The boss would likely literally have to do the work over from scratch to know if the current result is adequate. I'm familiar with a firm that does government required safety inspections for clients - big factories and the like. There is a huge push inside the company to use AI to write the reports. I don't want to tell you how many times the LLM fills in the report with the most common string "everything is fine" even though the specific future report checkbox has been left unchecked. Only a single engineer is fighting this within the company, and fears for her job because of it.