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Re:Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023) by surfingdino on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:16AM (#40220114)
Outside of our IT bubble? No. People will complain that something doesn't work, but they have no desire to change it themselves.
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Re:Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023) by itishappy on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @12:48PM (#40225812)
Desire or ability?

Currently if I desire to make the "new mail" button always available, some technical individual would have to devote hours of their time to figuring out the required changes.

Replace a technical individual with an LLM and the story becomes completely different. People love complaining! If that's all that's required to make changes then I bet we'd see a lot more of it.

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Re:Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023) by sublinear on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:12PM (#40227905)
Complaining to, praying to, or bullying an AI god is not going to solve anything. I expect this god to bring upon apocalypse. In the world of software, by its very definition, the righteous ones can only be the developers.

Pleasing everyone was never a people problem or a logic puzzle. It's fundamentally intractable and trivial to see how quickly contradictions would arise in any meaningful set of rules.

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