Comment by pixl97

3 hours ago

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

Care to enlighten us? Because you seem to imply you want to have a conversation about your day every time you fire up a shell.

What things? Again, I don't see any but manipulation and fraud, but I certainly could be missing some.

  • Role play, which is a huge consumer of tokens. You can glance at openrouter's usage stats and see what apps tokens are going to and what the inference content was classified as. It's quite revealing.

I don't need a computer to mimic a human. AT ALL

As a matter of fact, for the line of work I do (programming, devops, the works) being conscious about the fact that I am just getting an algorithm outputting text that is probabilistically related to the input I gave it would actually be healthy for me and my mental state.

I HATE having to say "you" when working with an LLM.

  • I have the same urge - third-person the LLM is an it, for sure, but I'm not aware of a suitable second-person construction for talking to things. Maybe we need to invent one.

    • When yelling at the other appliances I own, "you" usually turns into "you fucker" or "you useless piece of shit", so I stick with what I know.

      "Claude, you useless piece of shit, I already told you..."