[gishh]

> There are many valid critiques of AI, but “there’s not much there” isn’t one of them.

I have solved more problems with tools like sed and awk, you know, actual tools, more than I’ve entered tokens into an LLM.

Nobody seemed to give a fuck as long as the problem was solved.

This it getting out of hand.

[Aeolun]

Just because you can solve problems with one class of tools doesn’t mean another class is pointless. A whole new class of problems just became solvable.

[59nadir]

> A whole new class of problems just became solvable.

This is almost by definition not really true. LLMs spit out whatever they were trained on, mashed up. The solutions they have access to are exactly the ones that already exist, and for the most part those solutions will have existed in droves to have any semblance of utility to the LLM.

If you're referring to "mass code output" as "a new class of problem", we've had code generators of differing input complexity for a very long time; it's hardly new.

So what do you really mean when you say that a new class of problems became solvable?

[DonHopkins]

But sed and awk are problems.