Got maximal hair-on-fire financial doomerism about the #GenAI bubble if ya want it: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Genuinely scary.

[But: Too long, I stopped reading after I got past the data-centers-and-GPUs narrative and into the software engineering stuff, which was not particularly penetrating.]

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

I'm not anti the general field of Artificial Intelligence, it's an extremely interesting subject. I am deeply skeptical of the LLM/GPT products that are being deceptively sold to people as "AI solutions" or claiming to be the science fiction of Artificial General Intelligence. The cult-like following developing around them is even more disturbing, it is like something from Dune or W40K.

Please learn how these things actually work, even on a basic level, before making such wild claims.

#ai

Just found out (according to Peter Theil) that critics of AI are "legionnaires of the antichrist"¹

Hello fellow legionnaires!

¹Thank John Oliver (again).

"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.