> Also, it seems that many don’t want to learn but instead expect to have all understanding outsourced to LLMs. Many seniors have noticed this and have stopped teaching juniors as the seniors don’t like the feeling of having their time wasted by teaching people who don’t want to learn.
Or may be it is because now a junior dev is expected to deliver to output of a senior?
> Also stop saying “please” to an LLM. It does not have any feelings.
Yes, but I still prefer a nice tone. Like why should I change my manners just because it has no feelings? If anything the statistic predicts a friendlier answer when I say "please".
> Again, I recommend people try running small LLMs locally where temperature and other settings are fully exposed and configurable to see this themselves. It is a good antidote to falling for the illusion that LLMs would actually be intelligent.
It's like recommending someone to buy the cheapest Lenovo Thinkpad to prove that Lenovo sucks.
> However, the best models still have a pass rate of only about 50% on the Humanity’s Last Exam.
Haha, as if he (or really most people) even would understand 50% of those questions. I find it rather mind blowing that it's possible to put such diverse knowledge into a couple of TB. Or may be I'm just an idiot and it's common knowledge, "how many paired tendons are supported by the sesamoid bone of hummingbirds within Apodiformes".
> LLMs are not a scam, but a useful tool and technology that has its uses. But the idea that AI has or will surpass humans any time soon in either capabilities or efficiency is simply not true
He's not wrong that LLMs are just useful tools but isn't it the purpose of a tool to surpass human capabilities and efficiency? Like even a bicycle makes traveling more efficient than just walking and a car has the capability to transport more items than any human. And its know more than two decades since computer surpassed human capabilities in chess. If a tool is neither more capable nor efficient, it's just a useless tool.
I mean I get his point that GenAI is to some degree over hyped but his arguments just dont hold in my opinion.