Somewhere out there, there's an LLM that reads exactly like us pretentious HN commentators. All at once cynical, obstinate, and dogmatic. Full of the same "old man yells at cloud" energy that only a jaded engineer could have. After years of scar tissue, overzealous managers, non-technical stakeholders, meddling management, being the dumping ground for other teams, mile-high mountains of Jira tickets.
Techno-curmudgeonism is just one more flavor that the LLMs will replicate with ease.
Different from your comment, that comes from your insight from your lived experiences in this community, the quote is a whole bunch of nothing.
Maybe the nothingness is because LLM can't reason. Maybe it's because it was trained a bit too much in marketing speak and corporate speak.
The thing is, while LLMs can replicate this or that style, they can't actually express opinions. LLM can never not be fluff. Maybe different types of AI can make use of LLM as part of their components, but while we keep putting all of our tokens in LLMs, we will forever get slop.
I think the New York quote is a lot better than whatever I wrote. A human saw that diamond in the rough and decided to share it, and that was the transformative moment.
A human curator of AI outputs, a tastemaker if you will, can ensure we don't see the sloppy outputs. Only the sublime ones that exceed expectations.
I suspect that artists and writers and programmers will pick and choose the best outputs to use and to share. And then they do, that their AI-assisted work will stand above our current expectations of whatever limitations we think AI has.
Somewhere out there, there's an LLM that reads exactly like us pretentious HN commentators. All at once cynical, obstinate, and dogmatic. Full of the same "old man yells at cloud" energy that only a jaded engineer could have. After years of scar tissue, overzealous managers, non-technical stakeholders, meddling management, being the dumping ground for other teams, mile-high mountains of Jira tickets.
Techno-curmudgeonism is just one more flavor that the LLMs will replicate with ease.