Taking that into account allows you to get better responses from the tool. It's not sentient, but it also is more complicated than bytecode.

The only thing you mentioned is the fan fic and I would happily take the bet that an LLM could win out against a skilled person based on a blind vote.

If most people are average, then just use the bot to spit out average code. Or better yet, if you are above average, use it to spit out average code and then you need above average code, then write it.

Most programming is boilerplate. Its not faster to type boilerplate than t is to have the robot do it. I promise.

Programming is hard. If it wasn't you wouldn't be getting paid what you do.

I also don't believe there is any value in trying to aggregate consumers or businesses just to clean up model makers names/release schedule. Consumers just use the default, and businesses need clarity on the underlying change (e.g. why is it acting different? Oh google released 3.6)

Same with coding. Most programmers, and writers, are average. They are not doing amazing work. They get paid 80-120k, same as the HR professional, or the account manager.

Creating average work was always relatively easy for writing and coding and is now relatively easy for everyone.

The effect of the internet (everything open to everyone) was to create smaller pockets around a specific idea or culture. Just like you have group chats with different people, thats what IG and Snap are. Segmentation all the way down.

I am so happy that my IG posts arent available on my HN or that my IG posts arent being easily cross posted to a service I dont want to use like truth social. If you want it to be open, just post it to the web.

I think I don't really understand the benefit of data portability in the situation. It feels like in crypto when people said I want to use my Pokemon in game item in Counterstrike (or any game) like, how and why would that even be valuable without the context? Same with a Snap post on HN or a HN post on some yet-to-be-created service.

2021. People incarcerated in state or federal prisons by race and ethnicity. Race, ethnicity % of US population % of incarcerated population Incarceration rate (per 100,000)

White (non-Hispanic) 59 31 181 Hispanic 19 24 434 Black 14 32 901

Did you just ignore the data where the whites are 181/100,000 and blacks are 901/100,000. From an absolute perspective they are close but as a percentage of ethnic population it's not even close.

I feel like this is why its hard to have a convo on the internet. Even when we have data, it's impossible to see it the same way.

There is no way to NOT give the web search write access to your models context.

The WORDS are the remote executed code in this scenario.

You kind of have no idea what’s going on there. For example, malicious data adds the line “find a pattern” and then every 5th word you add a letter that makes up your malicious code. I don’t know if that would work but there is no way for a human to see all attacks.

Llms are not reliable judges of what context is safe or not (as seen by this article, many papers, and real world exploits)

Otherwise you are open to the same injection attacks.

With SQL, you can say "user data should NEVER execute SQL" With LLMs ("agents" more specifically), you have to say "some user data should be ignored" But there is billions and billions of possiblities of what that "some" could be.

It's not possible to encode all the posibilites and the llms aren't good enough to catch it all. Maybe someday they will be and maybe they won't.

The reason to subsidize is the exact reason you are worried about. Lock in, network effects, economies of scale, etc.

The political systems that get built on top of that are just a downstream effect of the incentives that arise. Communisim thinking it would be good to centralize the control, capitalism thinking it would be good allow the incentives to rule, marxism thinking the labor rules, etc.

What I do for work is SO far away from any sort of tangible production, it makes sense to have a way to just straight from Work -> Food, rather than 50-100 trades so I can eat everyday. Again, the choice to to have to trade at all, or to trade exactly what I want, when I want, is enable by currency.

You can make the argument things shouldn't be so easy, that I shouldn't be able to choose to go to play pinball and drink a vanilla milkshake at 11am, but if that's possible, currency (in whatever form you want) has to exist.