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Started reading antirez's piece on how hating on LLMs is bad.

I'm mostly against tech on the principle that it centralizes power but it's always ever been this thing I read about not actually seen used at all. I honestly don't understand what people use LLMs for, so I'm not the greatest to judge this tech tbf, I opened chatgpt when it came out, didn't get it.

But reading the comments is what really flabergastblblred me the most, the way people talk about about this stuff it's like affecting every single facet of their lives, what do you mean you need a LLM to put something in your calendar or code for you. I think I'm starting to realize, it's just not something that'll intersects with my life at all, and everyone being enthralled by this thing that just doesn't want anything to do with me, is maybe partly why I hate it so much.

I have to think about it.. X(

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@neauoire I don't think it's that complicated. LLMs are a universal symbol manipulator that are by now pretty much at the human level for the vast majority of tasks, and the most powerful ones cost $200 a month. No personal assistant, copy editor or programmer can compete with that, so it does indeed change everything.
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@cancel @neauoire aggressive incredulity won't change the fact that these tools are very useful and can indeed do things that we would have needed humans for. I personally used it to write:

- Mastodon API frontend
- Full fediverse server
- FPGA implementation of a Chip 8 interpreter
- Porting of an existing FPGA core to a different platform
- Web-based music player for an undocumented server system that the LLM reversed by reading the source code
- Find security issues in several existing server projects
- Implement paywalled functionality in open core projects
- Reverse engineer and implement a dos game without external information
- Expand test coverage and catch errors in existing tests in existing server projects

You can dismiss this all but then there's no question why someone "wouldn't get it", the reason is that you already know that it's useless.
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