It’s a lot of people not understanding the kinds of things it can do vs the things it can’t do.
It was like when people tried to search early Google by typing plain language queries (“What is the best restaurant in town?”) and getting bad results. The search engine had limited capabilities and understanding language wasn’t one of them.
If you ask a LLM to write a function to print the sum of two numbers, it can do that with a high success rate. If you ask it to create a new operating system, it will produce hilariously bad results.
I can blame the user for believing the marketing over their direct experiences.
If you use these tools for any amount of time it’s easy to see that there are some tasks they’re bad at and some that they are good at. You can learn how big of a project they can handle and when you need to break it up into smaller pieces.
I can’t imagine any sane person who lives their life guided by marketing hype instead of direct knowledge and experience.
It’s a lot of people not understanding the kinds of things it can do vs the things it can’t do.
It was like when people tried to search early Google by typing plain language queries (“What is the best restaurant in town?”) and getting bad results. The search engine had limited capabilities and understanding language wasn’t one of them.
If you ask a LLM to write a function to print the sum of two numbers, it can do that with a high success rate. If you ask it to create a new operating system, it will produce hilariously bad results.
You can’t blame the user when the marketing claims it’s replacing entire humans.
I can blame the user for believing the marketing over their direct experiences.
If you use these tools for any amount of time it’s easy to see that there are some tasks they’re bad at and some that they are good at. You can learn how big of a project they can handle and when you need to break it up into smaller pieces.
I can’t imagine any sane person who lives their life guided by marketing hype instead of direct knowledge and experience.
It is replacing entire humans. The thing is, it’s replacing the people you should have fired a long time ago