Hardy Erlinger

As usual, Ed Zitron is not mincing words:

"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards."

In this context, I find the argument "use AI or be left behind" quite interesting: During my more than 2 decades of writing software professionally I have mastered more tools, frameworks, libraries, platforms etc. than I care to remember. So why would learning yet another tool (AI) be any different once it reaches a stage of maturity?

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Revenge of The Business Idiot

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Once AI actually reaches the stage where its benefits outweigh its disadvantages (if ever), there is plenty of opportunity to dive into it in detail. And until then, keeping an eye on AI's development while continuing to carefully craft code by hand which works and does what our clients need, is perfectly fine in my book.

From the same article:

"And no industry that demands *everything* from us — our land, our energy, our water, our jobs, our art, our writing, our attention and every dollar we have — should ever be treated with anything but revulsion."

And this is the part that's really hard to argue with ...