> Why would you build an app at all? Why wouldn't Claude just be the app itself?
Because then you don't have to keep spending tokens to use the app.
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Because then you don't have to keep spending tokens to use the app.
Increasing the potency of some drug with fentanyl is an interesting choice, because by the time the user *knows* how strong it is, there's some likelihood they're already dead.
AI tools are notoriously unreliable, and people that use them *on purpose* generally know and recognize that. If grandma, who is not super-internet-literate, types a query into google and gets a phone number, she's going to assume that it's the correct number and not the result of a lossy data store that's under active (and constant) attack.
It used to be that you could reasonably verify your source with an HTTPS cert (so you can probably trust the number that's on Delta Airlines' website), and pop up scary warnings for grandma if those certs failed. Now every piece of misinformation has a valid cert from google or meta or X, so determining the truth is much more difficult and time consuming.
Reading documentation is a superpower
therefore, their scare is marketing.
He, personally, did a lot to enable this reality.
Not everything is about stock prices, but some things are.
As someone who also remembers classic Slashdot, it's staggering how many of the things Stallman was writing about back then came true. Software is centralized and subscription based, and largely not under the consumer's control. I fail to see how LLMs make any of these situations better, care to elaborate?
I don't know the details of the login system for Hacker News, but i would expect they learn "a hash of your password and some salt" for every login, and your password isn't just transmitted to them. If they're doing things correctly, they're only storing a hash of your password, and can't work backward to get it -- that's a big If, and lots of places get it wrong.
Nobody really *likes* their drug dealer.
You shouldn't, unless you're producing a bunch of code you don't understand.
I agree with this wholeheartedly, but convincing nontechnical management of this fact has been extremely difficult. It was hard in the days of the stackoverflow copy-paste monkeys, and it's even harder in the age of LLMs.
As an engineer who works very hard to do the right thing, I'm beginning to worry that software engineering doesn't matter. I write code that i think about a lot, understanding every line. It's not perfect, but I try to make sure my code is maintainable and well structured. I work much slower then my colleagues who produce unmaintainable slop at an alarming rate. In my career, no customer has ever complained about code structure or quality. It feels like I'm sinking in quicksand in an industry that's dying.