Comment by reformd

we don't meet enough people to worry about why or how productive someone is ... productivity is half mania, half obsession and 100 % in vain except in life critical fields where LLM speed doesn't matter because querying DBs is fast and making associations within _contexts that speak the same language_, meaning they use the same register, is trivial.

I use LLMs to build some nice customized and some basically standard tools so I can go from learning about code to learning Rust et al properly ... the next 2 years are scheduled for me. I want code and LLM supply chains as a proper hobby, partially because I find the overall "transformers" approach pretty bad since there is no implicit path towards intelligence and zero chance to build one on top explicitly. it's just a bunch of parrots but parrots are awesome and i'm glad I get to have so many.

Also: I really don't care what the communities think, though ... it's 2026 and all that code, math, science, engineering didn't build any special amount of good, "bad" ( vs ugly personalities ) or cool characters that we didn't have already and it didn't cause any "mutations" in schools of thought either, or drive movements where they were needed.

but I'm a bystander, which wasn't my choice, unfortunately, so y'all know much better what I'm talking about.

most players in the lower leagues won't dope but some do and take bribes anyway, what?

it's a cowardly new world, everybody, happy Esoteric Right Wing Hanukkah!