Bart Wronski πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈFeb 8, 2024

I decided I'll unfollow and then eventually block people who write or boost silly/ignorant (stuff like "it's theft!" or "it's useless!") anti GenAI/LLM takes, even if I know or like them. So, apologies upfront.
Nuanced takes and discussions are ok.

It's not a "threat", just ignorance makes my blood boil and it costs me energy to not engage with such bs. And it's not worth it. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

(I tried engaging in good faith, explaining my position, even spent a couple weekends writing a post on it.)

Show threadLesley Lai

@BartWronski I feel that "anti-AI" is the culture of this place. I can sympathize with people who have knee-jerk reactions to the hype, but it can become tiresome to hear the same argument over and over.

It's kind of a coincidence that I posted about ChatGPT here today. Even though my post was about not using LLM as a teacher, I still use it daily for other purposes and like the product

Feb 8, 2024 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadBart Wronski πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈFeb 8, 2024
@lesley I have a knee-jerk reaction to hype as well, I would ban any grifter influencers immediately. But the opposite reactions are even dumber (it's silly to fantasize about future unimaginable uses, but it's just idiotic to say something is just autocomplete or useless if it can be verified as false right now, in ten seconds) and more of a "group think", which I cannot stand.
Show threadShailesh MishraFeb 8, 2024

@BartWronski @lesley Just today I had to write a java server to receive some json request. There are countless number of ways to do it. But I asked llm to use the libraries that were already used in the project and cook up a solution.

Then it was matter of simply using it as reference. Sure googling would also get the job done, but this llm answer was personal and tailored to the project. One of the uselessfulness of llm. For context: I am a just an average python dev for day-to-day job.