off the cuff the idea that GenAI replaces juniors is guff. GenAI is a potentially a fancy upgrade to MS Office and basic coding tools which helps the productivity of everyone using it. That is my experience of using it over 3 years now. So we still need mentoring and juniors.
Absolutely. I'd prefer not to be using it at all but search engines are comprehensively broken now and writings on matters are becoming scarcer as everyone defers to the stochastics. I lost a bit of internal capability when search engines came in. Without care, I stand to lose a lot more from LLMs.
I value living near a big library full of books which are still intact.
all the rest is fluff, pretty flashing lights.
I can get value out of them. But the gap between the value it's possible to get and the claims being made for them is more of a void. And in the meantime, all humanity is being drained from work
I'd value the positive impact of LLMs alongside search engines a generation ago, that was a profound change in the relationship between people and information together with a reordering and this is at least equivalent. So it will be broadly disruptive.
But you also have a further generation of entrenchment of the silicon valley tech complex in society, with its hype machine. Which is inherently not acting in consumer interests.
It's not even just consumers. It's *industry*. It's "head off the golden goose" territory, with no politicians savvy enough to regulate and no will to even try while the silver bullet mirage is on the table.
IF ONLY, they said, their chest swelling with pride and not a little hubris, IF ONLY the leadership class could be a little more like me
I'm still waiting for my 3D-printed Caesar salad to arrive.
Well put. Profoundly depressing. Techno-centrists grasping at the silver bullet to fix their economic problems.