[liveoneggs]

The future is about embracing absolute chaos. The great reveal of LLMs is that, for the most part, nothing actually mattered except the most shallow approximation of a thing.

[belZaah]

This is true only for a small subset of problems. If you write crypto or hardware drivers, details do matter.

[holden_nelson]

I’m not an AI evangelical, but I think it remains to be seen what the size of that subset is. Those that write crypto and hardware drivers are certainly a small subset of programmers. Most of us are pumping out enterprise crud and arguing with our PMs.

[wizzwizz4]

The great reveal of LLMs is that our systems of checks and balances don't really work, and allow grifters to thrive, but despite that most people were actually trying to do their jobs properly. Perhaps nothing matters to you except the most shallow approximation of a thing, but there are usually people harmed by such negligence.

[liveoneggs]

I'm just as upset as you are about it, believe me. Unfortunately I have to live in the world as I see it and what I've observed in the last 18-ish months is a complete breakdown of prior assumptions.

[skydhash]

Imagine if the amount of a bank transfer does not matter, but it can only be an approximation, also you can approximate the selected account too. Or the system for monitoring the temperature of blood stockage for transfusion…

Often it seems like tech maximalists are the most against tech reliability.

[ModernMech]

I think the exact opposite is true: LLMs revealed that when you average everything together, it's really bland and uninteresting no matter how technically good. It's the small choices that bring life into a thing and transform it from slop into something interesting and worthy of attention.

[liveoneggs]

I think we agree but my prediction is that the slop will win