Comment by paulcole
1 year ago
> I’m a little shocked at how much negativity there is around LLMs among developers
There's a Quentin Tarantino quote where he says there are 2 kinds of film critics. There are those who love movies and there are those that love the movies they love.
A lot of developers really seem to love the technology they love.
These people are where most of the negativity is coming from. And my guess is that the people who are encouraged by LLMs and not negative (mostly) aren't taking time out of their days to write long blog posts or argue about it online.
I use Copilot for autocompleting the boring boilerplate. I like it. I also think LLMs are mostly useless.
It's not the technology, it's the stupid overhype. It really feels like all the HODL bitcoin cultists have finally gotten over their lost apes and found a new technogod.
So many people in these threads are convinced it's about to gain sentience. That's not going to happen. You get the people outing themselves by saying "it does my job better than me!"
If you say something honest and direct like "their output is mediocre and unreliable" or "the RNG text generator is not capable of thinking, you're just Clever Hans-ing yourself" or "if it does your job better than you, that says more about you than about it", you get people clutching their pearls like a Stanford parent whose kid got a D.
arXiv has turned into a paper mill of AI startups uploading marketing hype cosplaying as "research".