Hmm. If LLMs turned out like JS frameworks, that would mean that in ten years people will be saying:
“Maybe we don’t really need all this expensive ceremony, honestly this could be done with vanilla if/else heuristics…?”
At that time, there could be complaints on hacker news about messaging apps with autocomplete models that take up gigabytes.
The irony would be that the LLM could write you that code, but if you don’t know to ask…
"IDK, throw it at the LLM"
Could easily be done with 1 line of bash or js or python or whatever but... it's easier to just let the LLM do it for me :|
The main critiques outside of data privacy I've read are related to energy consumption, but even then, it's...not compelling? I read an article[0] that estimated the training of ChatGPT (3.5) to emit as much C02 as more than 3 round-trip flights between SF and NYC. That's not good! But also, really highlights that if we're to reduce emissions, there's clearly bigger targets than the largest ML models in the world.
[0]: https://themarkup.org/news/2023/07/06/ai-is-hurting-the-clim...
Oh, I know — I was trying to throw some shade on the state of JS frameworks rather than LLMs. With the pendulum now swinging back to vanilla DOM manipulation, it feels like the enormous effort spent on devising ways to wrap web UIs in endless variations of abstractions might have been somewhat of a waste.