The practice of writing can serve the purpose of conveying an idea or information to the readers, but it can also be an invaluable tool for the writer to process, digest, and internalize a message.

The act of wordsmithing, and shaping the idea from its raw rambling form into a coherent narrative, is intellectual metabolism.

A good writer will both distill the ideas, present them in such a way that will be pleasurable to their readers, and also bring the reader along the way so they can learn as well, and feel like an active participant.

The LLM tend to produce prose that defeats the purpose for the writer, takes the joy out for the reader, and ultimately does nothing for anyone but take up space.

It's not more words that make good stories, and it's not more code that makes good programs. It's what use is this to anyone, and only humans understand what other humans want and only humans can care.

Seems like people in this thread agree that it's better to express oneself in a less skilled fashion but actually write something that represents your idea, than to present some polished turd and pass it off as your own writing.

Same as a birthday card on some stock paper written in crayon will always be more valuable than a store bought card with generic sentiment.

I found more information on his website: https://www.martin-gendell.com/

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* Mark Twain * Matt Groening

They are people who have captured the zeitgeist of their time and immortalized it in their art. They deliver their (countercultural) messages in an accessible and relatable way and have had a huge impact on our society.

I would add Shel Silverstein as my personal favorite.

I believe the same pattern is inevitable for these higher level abstractions and interfaces to generate computer instructions. The language use must ultimately conform to a rigid syntax, and produce a deterministic result, a.k.a. "code".

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5fmhYc4U-Y

What are some examples of skills you think are now essential, that prior have been taken for granted or obviated in some way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

I recommend reading Carl Sagan for the cosmic perspective and embracing the awe.

It's worth adding, that while it is indeed all arbitrary and we are cast here without rhyme or reason, not everyone is born with the same lot in life. I also recommend reading Angela Davis for the perspective of systematically oppressed people and their struggles for liberation.

For me, when I do get lost in similar thoughts, it helps me to ground in my actual experience, and especially in what I can do in the short time I've been given to ponder to help others make their lives better.

Disclosure - I used to work for WhiteOps (now known as Human Security apparently).

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