I start to really really hate ChatGPT/LLMs.
It went from "hey that's cool" to "wait people are actually relying on this" very quickly
It went from "hey that's cool" to "wait people are actually relying on this" very quickly
This is part of a larger pattern I observe where people become fixated on solutions and forget (or never even knew) about the problem.
If you're working on something it's worth asking yourself every day: what is the problem I'm working on? Does this problem actually exist? Am I sure I'm working on a problem, or am I working on a solution?
This is just the natural behavior of trying to ride the wave of any tech hype cycle. There are incentives (both monetary and status) for doing so. FOMO also plays a large part here.
They know very well what they're doing and the tradeoffs of what they're doing. It's not a mistake, bias or hyperfixation.
This is a nice guys finish last situation. The investor capital goes towards "solutionizing", so that's what people chase. Nobody in their right mind thinks food delivery or e-scooter rental is a billion dollar idea for example, but money flows into it anyway.
Shitty, misinformative GPT-written block text. Cheap, Chinese-made, low-QC products on Temu or Amazon. Spammy, low-information SEO-optimized results at the top of Google search. Barely functional code written by an offshore team several corporate entities removed from the end users of that code. Shell subsidiaries to assemble Boeing planes to shift the responsibility of QC from the actual manufacturer.
It’s all the different angles of the same underbelly. Our favorite flavor of capitalism rewards the lowest denominator drivel, and perpetually validates that quantity over quality is a profitable and inevitably attractive trade off at sufficient scale.