Comment by locknitpicker
13 hours ago
> I really think the rise of LLMs has demonstrated quite well that most people don't care. Only a minority of us have ever had this desire.
I think people care about the problems they have to handle. Not having to deal with a problem eliminates the incentive of training to fix the problem, because you don't waste time on problems that don't happen.
People also stopped caring about what machine code was generated by compilers. In the past people had to roll out asm to get things to work. Not anymore. With llms it's the same way.
I know people who routinely check the generated machine code of compilers to see if it is reasonable or buggy.
When it is bad they either rewrite their source code or write assembly.
A tool do a job good enough that people don't have to do the job by hand does not mean people stop caring about the quality of the job.
People also use calculators and gas grills and cars. As you point out, a tendency to desire the same outcome for less effort doesn't imply one, or society, does not care for effort. It's about utility and where that effort is spent.