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Just as everything tends to evolve into something resembling a crab, all software seems to eventually become email — and, now, an LLM.

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“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” — Zawinski’s Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

I'm also a fan of "Every B2B SaaS attempts to expand until it it's an ERP."

Ah, this explains why Spotify has a messenger now.

I'm sure they're working on an algorithmic infinite scroll video feed as we speak.

Are music videos a thing still? I think that might work... Not that I have any idea about music videos or music or infinite scroll video feeds...

i mean videos were constantly popping up for me on mobile Spotify so it kind of had already started happening. I had to actually investigate how to turn it off.

Still no AirPlay 2 support, though!

“Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden implementation of half of Erlang.” — Robert Virding

Thanks, I was slightly off!

To be fair, productivity and writing tools are a better fit for LLMs than a lot of other use cases.

Responding to you and fullshark, I'm not criticizing, only observing. Just as there is some evolutionary pressure causing carcinization, it's interesting to consider what pressure pushes things in the directions of email and LLMs.

I don't know what it is, but would love to hear others' ideas.

I think "email" is a bit of a overly specific term, but if we take a small step back, communicating with other humans is usually the most important part of any piece of software.

I have a feeling these things will spend 99% of their processing time reading other LLMs outputs.

Resumes written by LLMs and read by LLMs

PR summaries written by LLMs and read by LLMs

Emails written by LLMs and read by LLMs

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Everything could just be a few bullet points... these things were already 90% posturing and trying to sound fancy by using convoluted sentences and big words, now that it's been automated what's the point

This company cannot afford to ignore LLMs.

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