Comment by coldpie
1 year ago
It's a fair perspective, but I'd counter by bringing up the opportunity cost we spent on the incredible amount of trash startups that ZIRP produced. Those Juicero & crypto & NFT people could've been doing something productive with their lives instead of whatever that mess was. Was Kafka worth that cost? I dunno. But seeing the obvious waste and the clowns who profited from it made me, personally, really depressed at the state of our industry. A system that so blatantly does not distribute rewards for real, valuable work really discourages one from bothering to even try putting in the work.
It kinda feels like raising the Temperature of a LLM too high, if you'll forgive the analogy. Yes, there might be occasional-seemingly brilliant-bursts of creativity but most of the output is just going to be nonsense.