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Maybe I am the weird one. I am definitely the weird one, OK? I've managed to get this far OK in life, but... waves hands around, exasperated This whole thing has never made sense to me.
Maybe that was why I was drawn to black metal and outsider art as a kid. Maybe that was why I left my home town as soon as I could and return as seldom as I can.
Anyway.
I happened read this article by Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html ...not because LLMs interest me, but because people interest me, they fascinate and confuse me.
Martin Fowler confuses me. I fundamentally don't understand how he thinks, how he can reach the conclusions he does. In the article, every reason and hope he has for positive outcomes from using LLMs are either fear-based or unsubstantiated bullshit. Every fear or worry he has is over something that has already come to pass.
"excited by the potential gains in productivity"
Maybe this was a view that it was possible to hold in 2023? By now it should be obvious that volume of output does not equal productivity. I mean it has always been obvious. We ALL KNEW that counting lines of code was a BAD FUCKING MEASUREMENT and yet you massive idiots can't stop counting lines of code as if you're convinced that God will judge you based on the amount of shit code you produced while alive.
Just look around at the state of software and the world. Where is the productivity, and is it doing us any good?
"I’m fearful of the damage AI might cause: agent swarms taking over our virtual and physical infrastructure, designing bio weapons."
The first of these has already happened! You don't need to fear what is already here. And why limit yourself to bio weapons? AI is already being used to murder innocent people in Gaza and Iran to name just two REAL PLACES where REAL PEOPLE LIVE and where LLM technology is being used to kill children, to target innocent people for crimes they haven't committed, to lie and give false testimony in court, to destroy the social fabric of trust and the democratic process.
Everything you fear is already real! Everything you hope for is a lie!
How can someone exist in the world and not see this? I don't get it!
"One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people with integrity, has made my life a far better one. Hence my visceral dislike of interacting with an LLM that’s not just making a pretense of being human, but also posing as the kind of human I walk away from."
So just fucking don't! Like what the fuck dude.