“LLMs are non-deterministic and often create bugs that weren’t there before with no accountability, and are therefore different from compilers.”
“Well, they used to do that a lot, but they hardly ever do it anymore. And besides, the bugs aren’t hard to spot.”
“That doesn’t change what I – whatever. LLMs cause your skills to atrophy.”
“Not if you use them smartly. Like I do. I’m proud to say I haven’t written a single line of code in over a year. In fact, I barely even read it anymore. But I make all the architectural decisions, and therefore, even though I haven’t even verified that the code does what the LLM says it does and blindly trust the unit tests it writes to catch any bugs, I understand the code perfectly and have not lost any skill. I could stop using it tomorrow if I wanted to. But why would I, when it’s so useful?”
“Datacenters burn natural gas and pollute the environment! OpenAI and Anthropic both give their technology to the military to make self guided bombs! The number of suicides directly attributable to LLM interactions is climbing by the day and none of the LLM companies care!”
“You really can’t accurately speak on whether LLMs are good or bad unless you’ve used one in the last six months.”
“…”
“They’re really useful now.”
cute, and i love the sentiment, but unless it can actually waste sam altman’s money i’m not interested.
he has changed his user name on twitter to “ram altman”. he does not care about the jokes.