The LLM In The Room

Jason Gorman writing about LLMs and “AI”:

An honest marketing slogan for [AI] technology might be “Impressive, but wrong.”

AI & jobs:

If anything, all the low-quality code these tools are churning out is creating a Mount Everest of technical debt that will require even more developers to keep the wheels on their enterprises turning in the future.

Besides, why plant trees? We have lots already!

Businesses who’ve stopped hiring and training entry-level developers because “GitHub Copilot can do what they do” are going to find out what happens when nobody plants tomatoes because “Hey, who needs tomatoes? We’ve already got pasta sauce”.

Maybe, in the end, what we get out of AI is more expensive humans — a banger dose of irony:

[I] wonder if the final destination of all this research, all this fanfare, and all this MONEY [into building AI], might be a world where human experts are both the better and the cheaper option. That would be very funny.

Also: when will we understand this?

More code faster != more value sooner.