Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
@ludicity hey man just wondering did you really need to insert the "rocketship trajectory" and "recursive self-improvement" and "it will definitely disrupt customer service" bullshit and back it up by referring to your "technical background"? do you really think natural language input is a replacement for todoist just providing a UI or god forbid a tiny deterministic DSL to do the same thing? i thought this post was funny and thoughtful but i felt sick reading that and couldn't continue
@hipsterelectron I was hoping that would pretty clearly saying "if we get improvements so extreme that it looks totally different from current technology". Hope that disambiguates things a bit. For what it's worth, I've mostly gotten email from non-technicians saying it calmed them down because they feel that their jobs might NOT evaporate overnight.
@ludicity you said it's definitely going to at least disrupt customer service in your least drastic "scenario", which runs completely counter to the rest of the post, since customer service is one of the most common places this nonsense is getting pushed, which puts already-precarious contract workers even more at risk! i don't understand why that's not exactly the kind of use case you excoriate elsewhere!
@ludicity todoist is also a really textbook example again of the kind of "AI" integration most software companies are performing so i don't understand how that passage doesn't give middle managers an excuse to integrate it because their stuff is kinda like todoist! i don't understand why you would make such a long post and then insert all of that in the middle; i can't share it, because it plays into hype, and i feel like most people didn't read that far, or worse: they trust in your "technical background" when you say recursive self-improvement is even remotely plausible. it sounds like you don't agree that this is harmful hype so i'll just drop it
@hipsterelectron I don't think I agree, but I am taking it seriously and might agree after thinking for a while. Appreciate you bringing this up.
And to be clear (you've made me I wasn't in the post), I don't think customer support being disrupted by current LLMs is a GOOD thing. I think it'll happen at great cost to the consumer. Whether it's profitable for companies long-term or the tech works is a different matter. Annoying customers off channels counts as a "win" for most bastards.
o7