Comment by vouaobrasil
3 hours ago
The problem is that in the future, LLMs will change society so much that we won't even want to go after these things any more because the world will live and die on cheap prototypes and trends.
It's like all the food being replaced by MacDonalds food that is served from a replicator (from Star Trek). Sure, we can survive on it, sort of, but if all we ever know is this food and we're too busy to cook (or no one knows how to manufacture a stove) then we'll never know anything else. Maybe someone will learn how to tweak the recipe a little but our minds will be conditioned to context-switch so much that we'll never even think of learning to cook great meals.
That's what LLMs do. They're shit.
Star Trek isn't the best example, because many characters on the show like to whine about replicator food having bland taste, and treating cooking as important skill to have (though I'd argue it's for social reason).
We've already gone through that many times with COBOL, Excel, Visual Basic, PHP, Javascript, etc.
Whenever a new technology makes what used to be hard easy, all the non-experts pile in and produce shit for awhile, until they're finally forced to admit that software engineering is hard (or die trying).
The same will happen with LLMs in a couple of years.