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> I don't doubt that most don't care, same with how most people fairly don't care about most things, but I do think those that like to immerse themselves in the whole journey as well as the result are probably not feeling great. At the very least, this one doesn't feel great.

Why? It literally has zero effect on you. Nobody's stopping you from obsessing about voxels of diversions in whatever if it makes you happy. But it comes across as genuinely pathological that you feel worse because other people don't care about something you care deeply about. Ask yourself this: do YOU feel deeply about EVERYTHING EVERY OTHER PERSON cares deeply about? Should other people be saddened because its-summertime doesn't care about their favorite TV series or how to crochet some particular object? Doesn't this appear patently insane to you?

The entire point of technology is to provide shortcuts. Compilers are shortcuts to creativity. So are IDEs. So are game engines. Laziness is not an inherent vice and working hard is not an inherent virtue, no matter how long the gold stars for effort linger in your memory.

The question was clearly about whether or not you felt joy from something that you didn't take part in creating. The fact that you're now playing dumb and obsessively returning to the topic of prompting shows you don't have a good counterargument.

I'll remind you again: it's none of your business what gives people joy.

> The article sort of goes sideways with this idea but pointing out that AI coding robs you a deep understanding of the code it produces is a valid and important criticism of AI coding.

No it isn't. There's literally nothing about the process that forces you to skip understanding. Any such skips are purely due to the lack of will on the developer's side. This lack of will to learn will not change the outcomes for you regardless of whether you're using an LLM. You can spend as much time as you want asking the LLM for in-depth explanations and examples to test your understanding.

So many of the criticisms of coding with LLMs I've seen really do sound like they're coming from people who already started with a pre-existing bias, fiddled with with for a short bit (or worse, never actually tried it at all) and assumed their limited experience is the be-all end-all of the subject. Either that, or they're typical skill issues.

>In that context, the answer in this case is to simply start talking about your project and showing it to people and asking for feedback (as you have done), and be conscious that what you're looking for is signals of user interest -- little sparks that you can convert into tiny flames so that you can start a fire.

So all of this text just to tell him to do what he's already been doing?

>The hypothetical is irrelevant here; what is germane is that the expectation of privacy by the individual participants, and the terms which bind people who use that service.

How can you have an expectation of privacy in a public forum? Where did this bizarre disorder originate, where people knowingly put their writing out there for literally anyone to read, then turn around and start talking about "expectations of privacy" when they realize what it entails?

You produced a passive-aggressive taunt instead of addressing the argument. For clarity: nobody was asking about your business decisions, nobody is intimidated by your story. what your personal opinions about "attitude" are is irrelevant to what's being discussed (LLMs allowing optimal time use in certain cases). Also, unless your boss made the firing decision, you weren't forced to do anything.

For almost everyone in the world, the answer is the latter.

> Leaning on an LLM to ease through those tough moments is 100% short circuiting the learning process.

Sounds like "back in my days" type of complaining. Do you have any evidence of this "100% reduction" or is it just "AI bad" bandwagoning?

> But you're definitely not learning how to write.

How would you know? You've never tested him. You're making a far-reaching assumption about someone's learning based on using an aid. It's the equivalent of saying "you're definitely not learning how to ride a bicycle if you use training wheels".

> Don’t let a computer write for you! I say this not for reasons of intellectual honesty, or for the spirit of fairness. I say this because I believe that your original thoughts are far more interesting, meaningful, and valuable than whatever a large language model can transform them into.

Having spent about two decades reading other humans' "original thoughts", I have nothing else to say here other than: doubt.

Luckily for Mistral, capital also exists in countries other than the USA.

> Three months later in April when this tagged data is used to train the next iteration, the AI can successfully learn that today's date is actually January 29th.

Such an ingenious attack, surely none of these companies ever considered it.

Yeah, it's great comedy.

> Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It's not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users.

Because a website with lots of links is executable code. And the scrapers totally don't have any checks in them to see if they spent too much time on a single domain. And no data verification ever occurs. Hell, why not go all the way? Just put a big warning telling everyone: "Warning, this is a cyber-nuclear weapon! Do not deploy unless you're a super rad bad dude who totally traps the evil AI robot and wins the day!"

And they are hilarious, because they ride on the assumption that multi-billion dollar companies are all just employing naive imbeciles who just push buttons and watch the lights on the server racks go, never checking the datasets.

AI models don't assume anything. AI models are just statistical tools. Their data is prepared by humans, who aren't morons. What is it with these super-ignorant AI critiques popping up everywhere?