Gary Strydom's Tiny CarLLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.
It's the same as AI "authors" and "artists". They don't want to make things. They want a get rich quick scheme, or the cachet of being an author or being an artist without actually ever having done anything. The hyperrealistic version of the Foucauldian author-function. Utterly horrific
Erik Johnson@decay Barring any of the obvious discussions about ethics, labor displacement and weakening of worker power…
SaaS/PaaS tools controlled by multibillion dollar corporations and a handful of delusional investors, and are seats of centralized power that will rug pull you as soon as they have market dominance and have established sufficient barriers to entry to prevent competition are democratized?
How the fuck are any of these tools democratized any more than Adobe Creative Cloud? Or Microsoft Office?
these people are so exhausting.