There was a time I really liked to go through books, documentation, learn and run the codes etc. but these days are gone for me. I prefer to enjoy free time and go to the gym now
Some may ruminate and pontificate and lament the loss of engineering dignity, maybe even the loss of human dignity.
But some will realize this is an inevitable result of human nature. They accept that the minds of their fellow men will atrophy through disuse, that people will rapidly become dependent and cognitively impaired. A fruitful stance is to make an effort to profit from this downfall, instead of complaining impotently. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733311
There's also an aspect of tragic comedy. You can tell that people are dazzled by the output of the LLM, accepting its correctness because it talks so smart. They have lost the ability to evaluate its correctness, or will never develop said ability.
Here is an example from yesterday. This is totally nonsensical and incorrect yet the commenter pasted it into the thread to demonstrate the LLM's understanding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747089
Grab your popcorn and enjoy the show. "Nothing stops this train."
I don't know where your interpretation came from. Perhaps you're an LLM and you hallucinated it? :)
This is performed with no acknowledgement of authorship or lineage, with no attribution or citation.
In effect, the intellectual property used to train such models becomes anonymous common property.
The social rewards (e.g., credit, respect) that often motivate open source work are undermined.
"Anyone who contradicts my opinion is paid off"
I do it for the love of the game.