I have a very long, possibly book-length take on LLMs that has been brewing since May 2015 but basically: wow humans love to take something that works extremely well in a certain narrow domain and then bend over backwards to insist it will solve every problem in the universe. (That's a nearly banal observation but the book length part would be tracing the technological, financial, historical, and psychological incentives that make it happen.)
@darius so much this. I would read that book.
Yesterday I had a conversation that concluded, "yes, you _could_ replace an entire product/dev team with bots, but you would also recapitulate all of the complicated bits of having a team in order to do it."
I wonder if God feels this way when looking at the creation he made in his image...
@blaine @darius so, I don't think technical people realize how empowering LLMs are.
People who have ideas about how to make technology work normally have to either learn how to code, or pay a rare, expensive and recalcitrant programmer to make the technology for them.
Some systems have simple macro languages, but most don't. So learning to code means years of study from app basics on up.
All of what you say is true, but I need to ask why do you want a proliferation of apps made by people who do not understand how they work or what the app actually is doing?
Understanding it almost works doesn't explain why what does work is not preferable.
Lack of education cannot be resolved in this manner. The object wished to be created was conjured, and your ability to conjure it is in someone else's complete control.
The technology is not a problem. Its usage is.
@evan @blaine @darius
The creation made via automation (I can't call any of this stuff Ai, it is deliberately unintelligent) requires a person skilled at creation to evaluate its success, merit etc.
As that person, in cases of artwork, code, tools, etc, I too experienced the "magic" and the "democratization" of production" feelings, and then try and do good work.
It requires an enormous amount of learned knowledge to use the tools of a trade successfully, no matter how accessible those tools
@mrcopilot @blaine @darius because that's how I started making apps.