I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.
About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.
In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.
There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.
Now it's LLMs.
Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.
EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.
@liw My concern isn't being made obsolete, at my age I don't really care.
My concern is the environmental and social harm caused by the needless waste LLMs produce.
Got an already trained model running on your laptop? More power to you, it's no worse than Visual Studio.
Your company is laying off 30,000 people to build datacenters in the desert with illegal fossil fuel plants that use all the groundwater? That's bad
I got a problem esp when it's used to create fakes that scam or harm people.
Lars Wirzenius
Longplay Games
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