using llm’s to do base level coding with human oversight is fine imo.
I hate AI’s societal consequences and it’s profit motive. I hate the data collection, i hate the Surveillance Tech it’s used for. I hate how it shits on Artists. I hate that people use LLM’s to substitude human connections, i hate the (current) environmental impact
But I’m not a luddite.
Cat’s out of the bag anyway. We can’t stop it. Same as people couldn’t stop machinery taking over simple work.
identification of cancer, development of vaccines, analysis of weather patterns and the ability to insta-translate speech and basically create real life subtitles are just small examples of vast usecases where AI was genuinely successful and a good use of the technology and there’s so much more.
We got to a point where a 50W specialized all-in-one-computing package can handle the workload of a local llm and outpace my gaming-rig which runs deepseek 8b.
50W is as much as a lightbulb in the 90’s.
So the environmental impact goes away with time as technology progresses.
the issue lies with the corpos, not the technology.
Sure, collectively we could stop it. But those who oppose it are not numerous enough.
using llm’s to do base level coding with human oversight is fine imo.
I hate AI’s societal consequences and it’s profit motive. I hate the data collection, i hate the Surveillance Tech it’s used for. I hate how it shits on Artists. I hate that people use LLM’s to substitude human connections, i hate the (current) environmental impact
But I’m not a luddite. Cat’s out of the bag anyway. We can’t stop it. Same as people couldn’t stop machinery taking over simple work.
We can stop it. It’s not profitable or good.
identification of cancer, development of vaccines, analysis of weather patterns and the ability to insta-translate speech and basically create real life subtitles are just small examples of vast usecases where AI was genuinely successful and a good use of the technology and there’s so much more.
We got to a point where a 50W specialized all-in-one-computing package can handle the workload of a local llm and outpace my gaming-rig which runs deepseek 8b. 50W is as much as a lightbulb in the 90’s. So the environmental impact goes away with time as technology progresses.
the issue lies with the corpos, not the technology.
Sure, collectively we could stop it. But those who oppose it are not numerous enough.
First few are not LLMs