Comment by m3047

The dead elephant in the freezer in the room is low / no code solutions, which don't require a cloud. Is it really easier for the illiterate masses (can't unsee all of the horrible graphics with fumble mumble legends) to accurately, consistently, coherently type out their thoughts than it is for them to gesture? Hey guys, ummmm guys do you use a web interface to manage your CI / CD pipeline? Have you ever had to verbally guide somebody through a sequence of gestures? Have you ever had to extract an ACCURATE description of their gestures during an interaction you're investigating from some rando?

I use pointy-clicky software for visualizing relationships and correlations. I use draggy droppy software for building complex data workflows (including ML elements). I use desktop publishing software rather than LaTEX. I suffer industrial interfaces for (most of) my own software (where I am the chief customer) because it's easy for me to sling simple server-side UIs, but there are standalone servers out there which make creating apps (with RFID, QR, accellerometer support) just like, yes JUST like, desktop publishing (especially as you get closer to industrial control applications); one of my faves has a widget which is a "choose your own adventure" dashboard widget so that the users can create a dashboard customized just for them, yes, Inception (granted, that widget does need some configuration which requires a keyboard).

Granted, behind every one of those slick interfaces is a drippy gob of data. I have to create a CSV in the correct format for the visualizer, or surrender to their integrated "partner solutions"; or for a different visualizer I have to create some network services which it consumes for "enrichment". My data workflow tool has generic python "actions" so you can create custom tasks (it presents the data to your scripts using pandas). On very rare occasions I have a need to hack on DTP docs to format obscene amounts of repetitive data; but a lot of the time it's back to making a CSV and putting that in a spreadsheet / database which the software can then utilize for quaintly-named "mail merge". The UI software which I refer to integrates with SQL databases and authorization / access management engines, somebody still needs to set those up; and I stumbled across it in the first place because somebody needed a little (surprisingly little) help connecting to an obscure HTTP resource.

To short circuit a bunch of off track commentary: LLMs are not speaking english to other LLMs to design new LLMs AFAIK. I have never seen a debate or article about whether it is better for LLMs to utilize english or russian for this task. I just don't like the menu that is offered on this ship Titanic, and I'm uncomfortable with the majority of the passengers being incarcerated belowdecks; I'll book different passage, thanks.