Anyone who is this obsessed with anything - sexuality, Gaza, Epstein, AI - has some personal issues they need to address rather than blaming external factors for their unhappiness. Go to an in person book club meeting or an art class. Boom! No AI, purely human work and communication. Talking to AI and AI generating stories and pictures for me makes me happy. If that's a problem for blog's author, I would certainly not enjoy interacting with them more than I enjoy chatting with Grok.
Yes, I spend my days writing lots of code using AI (I do rigorously review it, it's still much faster than hand typing) and I get paid enough for it to pay mortgage and send kids to college.
You just need to work on your agent design and prompting skills, modern LLMs are crazy good at all the things you listed with the right context and tools.
Technically yes, but this has nothing to do with LLMs.
You need to be able to write a good spec period, and this has been true as long as programming has existed. The problem is, LLMs cannot write them themselves, and have trouble reasoning out the unstated parts of complex problems if the spec doesn't spell it out.
Developers familiar with the problem space being worked on, however, can reason out the unstated parts, because the unstated parts are usually the bread and butter of the problem space.
Side note: this is often why LLMs trained on synthetic text perform weirdly or badly... the synthetic text is written by people not familiar with the thousands of individual problem spaces that exist out there, and miss important facts or nuance.
LLMs trained on real text, however, is often done without proper license, and are essentially lossy compressed piracy archives. You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
It's the latest form of elitism - like in less sunny countries it's fashionable to be tanned because it means you are rich enough to have time to hang around on the beach while in sunny countries it's fashionable to be light skinned because you are rich enough that you don't have to work in the sun. Disdain for AI is a luxury belief of those who are either talented enough to draw / write / code without or are wealthy enough to not have to.
Is it though? I thought elite engineers needed to consume billions of tokens monthly and/or pay >100 USD subscriptions to AI tools to realize their potential.
Or a belief of those scared that an imploding "AI" bubble will ruin their financial futures. Or just that most of the humans in their own white collar professions will be replaced by AI's.
My news reading AI policy - I will use whatever source for news, AI or human, that gives me the best news. A lot of times it's human, like I appreciate diverse human comments on ycombinator. CNN used to have comments threads on articles and then gave that up because some comments were spicy, so I stopped reading. I don't remember the last time I went to arstechnica, I guess because they didn't standout compared to just asking Grok what's new in tech or browsing Reddit. If they could have used more AI to make their site more interesting, they should have.
That's a dim view, people also contribute to make projects work for their own needs with hopes to share fixes with others. Like if I make a fix to vLLM to make a model load on particular hardware, I can verify functionality (LLM no longer strays off topic) and local plausibility (global scales are being applied to attention layers), but I can't pretend to understand full math of the overall process and will never have enough time to do so. So, I can be upfront about AI assist and then maintainer can choose to double check, or else if they don't have time, I guess I can just post a PR link on model's huggingface page and tell others with same hardware they can try to cherrypick it.
What's missed is that neither contributors nor maintainers are usually paid for their effort and nobody has standing to demand that they do anything they are not doing already. Don't like a messy vibe coded PR but need functionality? Then clean it up yourself and send improved version for review. Or let it be unmerged. But don't assign work to others you don't employ.
On the other hand, companies like NVIDIA should be publicly taken to task for changing their mind about instruction set for every new GPU and then not supporting them properly in popular inference engines, they certainly have enough money to hire people who will learn vLLM inside out and ensure high quality patches.
> What's missed is that neither contributors nor maintainers are usually paid for their effort
To be clear, the Linux kernel is mostly developed by well paid employees of various tech companies that need to steer the future of the Linux kernel, even if only to write drivers.
I just got MiniMax $200/year token plan. Usually it works fine for daily coding, if it gets stuck I pay for some Claude API calls through Roo gateway. Unlike other plans, this one officially supports running OpenClaw or other API workflows and doesn't suspend you long term if you use too many tokens, just set rate per few hours.
