prime_ursid

I have to ask. Did you even skim the article you’re commenting under?

> What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away

I found this piece to contain more layers of detail than the usual feel-good dunk-on-bean-counters rants.

I recommend reading Hamel.dev posts. Here’s an example: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/

Yup, and I also have this problem when I laugh out loud listening to comedy podcasts.

Who is “we” in this sentence? A tiny subsection of metalheads? The vast majority of people aren’t seeking out the most mechanically dexterous musicians to listen to.

First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way.

Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments.

> He published this. Openly. In a book. As a priest.

This is how airport novels and LinkedIn "thought leadership" clickbait is written, so ok, fine, I'll let it pass.

Then I started to notice a lot of: "It's not X. It's Y" or "this isn't just A. It's B."

> Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis.

Before LLMs, people weren't writing this way. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon: it's insulting to read, like the reader is a 5-year-old.

When several of these smells pile up, I close the tab immediately and try to forget about it. This one was so egregious that I had to read the whole thing and then come to the comments to rant a bit.

Our society is so cooked, man. We don’t even realize how over it is, and even people genuinely trying to understand are not able to.

This may be acceptable to you as an individual, but it’s not to me.

This opinion column from The Hill is written by a Fox News contributor. Of course it’s going to leave out certain inconvenient facts in service of a nativist agenda. The HN community time and time again shows that they are ready to be whipped up into an anti-immigrant frenzy at the drop of a hat.

> That’s only true when you’re in a large corporation. When you’re by yourself, when you’re the stakeholder as well as the developer, you’re not in meetings. You're telling me that people aren’t shipping anything solo anymore? That people aren’t shipping new GitHub projects that scratch a personal itch? How does software creation not involve code?

So if you’re saying “LLMs do speed up coding, but that was never the bottleneck,” then the author is saying, “it’s sometimes the bottleneck. E.g., personal projects”

And how profitable are OpenAI and other providers?

They’re running at a loss. The startups using LLMs as their product are only viable as long as they get free credits from OpenAI. The only people making a profit are NVidia.