Comment by renegade-otter
1 day ago
LLMs are life-changing for a dev who has been writing code for 20+ years (because I am tired of it).
Outside of AI's impact on software, which is massive, the biggest change that we are going to see, I think, is the crushing amount of useless information generated by it.
We already see how everything is racing to the lowest common denominator once we granted Average Human Intelligence unfettered access to expressing thought via social media.
Now that Average Human Intelligence just has a button that says "Generate Bullshit For Me. Send to the World".
UGH.
Oh 99% of the lines of code we write don't do anything because the tools and languages are crap. Only reason LLM looks good is it's an easy way around the over-abstraction of everything.
> useless information
That's a contradiction in terms. What is being generated is the opposite of information that just clogs the pipes: Slop.