Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@macstories/116255585273477515

Jeff Johnson 3d ago

"Transitioning from the instrument player to the conductor of the orchestra"

I don't think this analogy is good, especially for an indie developer. A 40-piece orchestra needs a conductor, but a 4-piece rock band does not. In any case, the musicians are always the talent, a conductor merely a coordinator. Moreover, in classical music, the conductor is not even the composer.

@lapcatsoftware the part that probably pissed me off the most is this:

"I wish more people in our community were willing to have nuanced and pragmatic conversations about it rather than blindly taking sides."

Maybe it's the places he's reading/hearing. But there is a lot of pragmatic discussion about it. It seems that maybe he's doesn't understand why people don't want to immediate give their lives to LLMs when they here these "success" stories from LLM usage.

@lapcatsoftware And what happens when we've got rid of all the human input that is used to train the LLMs? Or what happens when these companies decide that running LLMs are no longer viable and shut them all down? People would have debilitated themselves for years and no longer have any clue how to function otherwise.

@lapcatsoftware I don't understand why people think these are the same. And I completely agree with your statement about understanding assembly language. You can argue it and I've actually heard it for many years now, that developers actually should try understanding much lower level languages. To some extent you can say that Java, C#, Swift, etc. have abstracted away too much, so developers don't really understand the implications of doing one thing over another.

@db And frankly, you and many of the other people here do give me hope. It shows me that I'm not alone in this fight.

@ben I remember those days and still experience them, with mine. For one of them, don't you dare put cheese on his noodles and let it melt. The cheese goes on right as he's eating it and not a second before.

But I can look back on those moments fondly and just laugh.

@db @neil @pluralistic I guess it takes a lot of code to screw over both the drivers and the riders and avoid regulations.

I refuse to be a part of this, even if it means taking a drastic pay cut and changing careers. It's not quite here yet, but I see the writing on the wall, at my current company. Good thing enshittification has already made me consider careers outside of SE.