And of course it's an AI-generated article.
(Although I might revisit the part on coding, I do find having LLM write scaffolding / unit test code somewhat useful)
“Writing is something you express, not delegate.” Is still something I feel strongly about.
I decided to share this here because I wanted to know what the HN community thought about it.
I see that this has been flagged. I am not familiar with the rules here. I’ll refrain from sharing “self-promotional” links here.
edit: actually I wouldn't. I do not want to interact with an internet that is dead. AI-edited or consulted, that's fair. Generated—no thanks.
No thanks. Myself and many others will continue to seek out real thoughts written by human writers.
Your mindset and willingness to flippantly dispose of human communication is deeply concerning to me.
Your days should not be spent deciding if the machine generated data you’re constantly consuming is of a specific calibre.
The reality is that being human stands independent of that idea.
Thoughts and ideas of course will continue to be the domain of humans, but as curators/extending our intellectual creativity beyond just the mere craft of writing. So even that story, that humans are thinking beings, will continue on for the foreseeable future.
As soon as LLMs start thinking please let us know!
But even if we consider the slopification argument, don't factories produce slop as well? Fast fashion is notorious for producing slop. But at the same time factories also produce are cars, shovels, housing, screws, etc. are they "slop"? How about computers? And other advanced manufacturing? Still slop?
Even if we consider the slopification argument, it isn't strong enough.
The use of AI to produce slop is a non-argument. On the same level of argument that an open internet would produce scams, proliferation of pornography, and gross commercialization/ads. All true, but still a lot of new value was unlocked from n order effects.
YOU need to provide the evidence for your truly absurd claims.
In order for you to be right everyone else needs to be wrong.
The capital markets, the investors, the companies, the hundreds of millions of people using it on daily basis, they ALL need to be wrong.
From the about page: ” When I’m not writing code, I write prose, short and long, ranging from personal anecdotes in tech to philosophical musings on how technology shapes culture, society, and the individual self.”