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agarren | 8 months ago

That jibes with what Nadella said in an interview not too long ago. Essentially, SaaS apps disappear entirely as LLMs interface directly with the underlying data store. The unspoken implication being that software as we understand it goes away as people interface with LLMs directly rather than ~~computers~~ software at all.

I kind of expect that from someone heading a company that appears to have sold-the-farm in an AI gamble. It’s interesting to see a similar viewpoint here (all biases considered)

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Vegenoid|8 months ago

> people interface with LLMs directly rather than software at all

What does this mean? An LLM is used via a software interface. I don’t understand how “take software out of the loop” makes any sense when we are using reprogrammable computers.

FridgeSeal|8 months ago

It’s just…the vibe of it man! It’s LLM’s! They’ll just…do things! And stuff…it’ll just happen!!! Don’t worry about the details!!!!

ethbr1|8 months ago

The strongman for it would be:

Our current computing paradigm is built on APIs stacked on APIs.

Those APIs exist to standardize communication between entities.

LLMs are pretty good at communicating between entities.

Why not replace APIs with some form of LLM?

The rebuttal would be around determinism and maintainability, but I don't think the strongman argument is weak enough to dismiss out of hand. Granted: these would likely be highly-tuned, more deterministic specialized LLMs.