undefined

points

[-]

I can see where you're coming from, and I share the sentiment and resentment to a large degree, but I think you might be not doing reality justice.

It is true that closed weights models are a big issue. It is also true that LLM-generated solutions usually drift towards a median.

But that is not the dead end you think it might be.

Most coding work is repetitive boilerplate, and most typing is just.. well.. typing. Miserable work I too did not really enjoy. What I did enjoy were the end results, and that was just a necessary step to get there.

Now that's less the case than it was before we had LLMs, and for that I too am glad.

___

I think the article headline might've primed you (and me, fwiw) to reading the comment you're replying to as passive. But if you just look at the words of it, that might not actually be the case.

by post-it4 hours ago|

prev|

[-]

The same can be said of stuff like cloud storage and email and social media. And yet here we are.

by burnoutdv4 hours ago|

parent|

[-]

Your point is true to some extend, I personally host my own "cloud" storage..it comes with drawbacks, same is true for email..especially email, social media is a society constructs, by definition its reliant on others but many will argue that its not worth keeping anyway (although I wonder how one stays human in this world then, the meat space seems with so many barrieres in this age).

I feel very much like a luddite..or some artisan of a bygone age. The guy above laments how he never enjoyed coding, this is an interesting sentiment, I know quite a few people who enjoy the craft itself, myself included. The ability to form words that have meaning, that create something from nothing. Sure, the words are just a tool, but its something _I_ can master, not some abstract wish machine that may change its functionality tommorow. Obviously one can argue that the computer itself is in this case the one that creates and not me, its not magic that just works with me, but the machine I got obeys me and me alone..another reason why personal computing is important.