Comment by furyofantares

> It's like thinking the greatest barrier to producing the next great Russian literary novel is not speaking Russian.

The article is very clearly not saying anything like that. It's saying the greatest barrier to making throwaway comments on Russian social media is not speaking Russian.

Roughly the entire article is about LLMs making it much cheaper to make low quality software. It's not about masterpieces.

And I think it's generally true of all forms of generative AI, what these things excel at the most is producing things that weren't valuable enough to produce before. Throwaway scripts for some task you'd just have done manually before is a really positive example that probably many here are familiar with.

But making stuff that wasn't worth making before isn't necessarily good! In some cases it is, but it really sucks if we have garbage blog posts and readmes and PRs flooding our communication channels because it's suddenly cheaper to produce than whatever minimal value someone gets out of hoisting it on us.