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> I've been friends with Jack over 15 years now so I'm inclined to take him at his word
That's all I needed to hear to completely disregard your motivated reasoning.
Edit: I've hit the rate limit, but I'd like to disavow the bad-faith accusations made against me and my account in the replies to this comment.
Second edit: I am not trolling. Why should I take your opinion on LLM code generation seriously when you have been friends with the founder of Anthropic for well over a decade? Obviously you are not in a position to make a rational evaluation of this technology.
> If I release a wild monkey in your rare antiques shop, itβs my fault as the responsible party for the monkey.
Sounds like motivated reasoning from someone worried about having their job stolen by wild monkeys.
If AI is as powerful as an atomic bomb why could it only manage to kill a couple hundred Iranian school girls? Surely a truly society-shifting technology could manage to execute 1000 innocent children at least.
> he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity.
A lot of these AI guys seem pretty simple to me...
Thank you for blessing us with your presence, sir.
> It's like half the people have turned off their brain.
LLMs are for people who want to turn off their brain. If you want your team to improve, you should lead by example and stop using LLMs. You need to create an environment where it is unacceptable to turn off your brain. Your underlings will never use LLM tools the way you want them to. LLM tools are designed to be used the way your underlings use them.
> but you're completely devoid of empathy if you can't understand these posts.
These posts are about saying "fuck you" to software developers. They're having fun making people scared but really they're just trying to reduce your market value.
Wow, I had never considered it, but it really seems like a huge benefit that all implementations in the company codebase are now perpetually refactored.
> Who likes typing code
It really does seem like the target audience of LLM users are people who never learned to use Vim.
> And who likes planning, architecting, directing a team, steering and giving advice, reviewing code, designing interfaces and APIs.
Why would anyone pay you to work for them if you aren't willing to do these things? This is the entire job.
Don't concede the "power tools" analogy. LLM are not capable of building maintainable software.
These narratives are designed for people who want to see programmers taken down a peg. The truth is that LLM generated code is not sustainable and the people hawking it are operating recklessly.
OpenAI/Anthropic's marketing here reminds me of the way colonizers will exalt criminal groups in the regions they wish to dominate. Similarly, these AI firms have exalted a caste of lower-performing engineers who have been wreaking havoc with AI spam for the last few years. I'm not worried about losing my job and these people will become scapegoats when the bottom falls out.
