@michal I know. I don’t want to.

I’m not a fan of mechanical cross-posting because it results in compromises (formatting differences, different post length limits, different supported media, …).

1. Most tech people are on Mastodon, resulting in much more interesting content and conversations.

2. Mastodon’s model of decentralization, despite its many flaws, is better and more sustainable than Bluesky’s. This is especially true in today’s political and legal climate (US–EU split, various age-verification laws, …).

@zoul Well, four years ago, pretty much nobody knew what a LLM is 🙂

As for replacement, this has already happened to a large degree in various professions (e.g. illustrators, translators), and it’s happening right now in software engineering (in the sense that the ability to translate user requirements into working code, which was the core of the job, lost much of its value).

To me it’s quite clear this will be quite a wild ride (modulo things I mentioned earlier, like resources).

@zoul As for humans being the bottleneck, I worry about that a lot. The pressure will be to remove humans from the loop — initially partially and later completely. This will create a dangerous situation, especially as the models get more capable.

There’s much more nuance to all this and each point would deserve a bigger discussion, but this is my current thinking.