Forgive the smelly domain.

This is a fantastic short essay by Rich Hickey.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What?

Maybe it’s pedantic, but he’s narrowly right. Cooking and drive-thrus are different.

If you say you want to be fed and both achieve that end, that’s true. But the metaphor is apt since drive-thrus give you junk food the way LLMs give you junk software and leave you feeling bad and wondering what went into it.

Cooking for yourself gives you better control over the inputs and process.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Is a dishwasher a tool for washing dishes or automation of dish washing? If it's a tool then I don't see how LLMs aren't, in both cases you do some set up, tell it to go, and inspect the result for if its acceptable. If its automation then it shows that automation can be a good thing when done well and the moral panic around it is just "its bad when the thing I like as an educated person is automated".

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I fed your post to my LLM and it said to wash dishes by hand since it's more thorough.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Thanks for that, very useful point promoting interesting discussions.

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