JKolios

> Thanks for trying Write.as! This post will automatically be unpublished after 1 hour.

...why though? What's the appeal of this?

> When you use an LLM, [...] you get to pay the social tax: you converse and negotiate and convince and sometimes even get angry1 at the so-called tool.

Might be a subjective opinion, but this is how writing code always felt to me, even pre-LLMs. An ongoing inner conversation where I try to convince the text on the screen to match the text in my head. It never really felt like tool use in the sense of manual labor.

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, not really a perfect analogy to the situation. Still, the author expects teams with different priorities and design philosophies to follow a new standard, that can easily end up in more fragmentation.

1. There are 5 competing standards.

2. This is clearly unacceptable, so we've created the one standard to unite them all™.

3. There are 6 competing standards.

Well, the Matrix did this. Badly. "Machines who have developed nuclear power are using human bodies as batteries"-level badly.

"A rogue AI led to a serious security incident" is certainly a way to write "Someone vibe coded too hard and leaked data".

Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?

Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.

More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.

>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago)

This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.

For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science fiction: Commenting on the present through the lens of the imaginary past, instead of the imaginary future.

The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.

> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.

So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we'll have to go through until we get a unicorn?

Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.