Re:The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engine...
by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:22AM
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> Sometimes I wonder if LLM proponents even understand their own bullshit.
Categorically, no. Most are not software engineers, in fact most are not engineers of any sort. A whole lot of them are marketers, the same kinds of people who pumped crypto way back.
LLMs have uses. Machine learning has a ton of uses. AI art is shit, LLM writing is boring, code generation and debugging is pretty cool, information digestion is a godsend some days when I simply cannot make my brain engage with whatever I must understand.
As with most things, it's about choosing the right tool for the right task, and people like AI hype folk are carpenters with a brand new, shiny hammer, and they're gonna turn every fuckin problem they can find into a nail.
Also for the love of god do not have ChatGPT draft text messages to your spouse, genuinely what the hell is wrong with you?
Categorically, no. Most are not software engineers, in fact most are not engineers of any sort. A whole lot of them are marketers, the same kinds of people who pumped crypto way back.
LLMs have uses. Machine learning has a ton of uses. AI art is shit, LLM writing is boring, code generation and debugging is pretty cool, information digestion is a godsend some days when I simply cannot make my brain engage with whatever I must understand.
As with most things, it's about choosing the right tool for the right task, and people like AI hype folk are carpenters with a brand new, shiny hammer, and they're gonna turn every fuckin problem they can find into a nail.
Also for the love of god do not have ChatGPT draft text messages to your spouse, genuinely what the hell is wrong with you?