prime_ursid

> This is about computer code. Debunking is either "it runs or doesn't". Not hard.

I have to ask. Did you even skim the article you’re commenting under?

If the climate effects don’t get you, the political fallout of a million climate refugees showing up at your borders will.

Wouldn’t that be against TOS?

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

The trajectory is that the LLM providers have been making prompting increasingly dead-simple for the past 2 years. Any edge a group of individuals may have in knowing how to use LLMs gets absorbed into the LLM product.

Nah, I disagree. I can see why you think this is another piece glorifying engineers at the expense of the business. However, as a technical founder in a former life, I saw a handful of mistakes that the engineers made. Lack of focus, lack of pushback, poor management of the engineering team, lack of product thinking, lack of connection to and empathy for the end user. I could find more if I re-read it.

I found this piece to contain more layers of detail than the usual feel-good dunk-on-bean-counters rants.

> If you ever listen to music and sing along, even for a few seconds, the volume cuts

Yup, and I also have this problem when I laugh out loud listening to comedy podcasts.

> We have tolerated low quality art for far too long because we pretend mechanical dexterity is what makes art, art.

Who is “we” in this sentence? A tiny subsection of metalheads? The vast majority of people aren’t seeking out the most mechanically dexterous musicians to listen to.

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds.

First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way.

Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments.

> He published this. Openly. In a book. As a priest.

This is how airport novels and LinkedIn "thought leadership" clickbait is written, so ok, fine, I'll let it pass.

Then I started to notice a lot of: "It's not X. It's Y" or "this isn't just A. It's B."

> Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis.

Before LLMs, people weren't writing this way. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon: it's insulting to read, like the reader is a 5-year-old.

When several of these smells pile up, I close the tab immediately and try to forget about it. This one was so egregious that I had to read the whole thing and then come to the comments to rant a bit.

And where did those people get their Masters degrees and PhDs from?

Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

If choosing your place of employment to align with your values is a “virtue signal,” then maybe we should all be signaling our virtues a lot more.