SwoopsFromAbove

682 karma · joined May 29, 2021

Generalist software developer, technologist, and team lead.

Interested in what makes software successful, what makes a software team work well together, and why people have a curious obsession with putting computers in everything. Find myself arguing against the use of technology worryingly often for a technologist.

https://tomrenner.com

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SwoopsFromAbove··on LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

And is the electric one intelligent? :p

SwoopsFromAbove··on LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

I also cannot calculate the square root of 472629462.

My pocket calculator is not intelligent. Nor are LLMs.

SwoopsFromAbove··on LLM Inevitabilism

This is how I approach the tools too. I believe it’s a healthy approach, but who’s to say whether I’m just a naysayer. shrug

SwoopsFromAbove··on LLM Inevitabilism

100%. Not a new phenomenon at all, just the latest bogeyman for the inevitabilists to point to in their predestination arguments.

My aim is only to point it out - people are quite comfortable rejecting predestination arguments coming from eg. physics or religion, but are still awed by “AI is inevitable”.

SwoopsFromAbove··on Does the software industry learn?

You see, this sounds really cool. So what kinds of problems fit COBOL? And why did "we" conclude from this that general purpose languages were the solution, rather than building many different languages for specific problems? Did "we" even conclude that, or is that just my impression, 50 years later?