On the other hand, if you are experienced, it’s really not that difficult to get what you need from an LLM, and unlike on SO, you don’t need to worry about offending an overly sensitive user or a moderator. LLMs never get angry at you, they never complain about incorrect formatting or being too lax in your wording. They have infinite patience for you. This is why SO is destined to be reduced to a database of well structured questions and answers that are gradually going to become more and more irrelevant as time goes by.

Microsoft has been criticized for investing in AI heavily. But it actually makes sense for Microsoft if you consider the nature of their business. The problem is not with the investment per se but with what they got out of it. Unfortunately, Microsoft sucks at product management, so instead of creating useful stuff that users want and are ready to pay for, they created stuff that no one understands, no one can use, and no one wants to pay for. Github copilot is an exception of course. I'm talking more about their Office 365 AI.

The other important point is that Fourier doesn’t really give you frequency and loudness. It gives you complex numbers that can be used to estimate the loudness of different frequencies. But the complex nature of the transform is somewhat more complex than that (accidental pun).

A fun fact. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle can be viewed as the direct consequence of the nature of the Fourier transform. In other words, it is not an unexplained natural wonder but rather a mathematical inevitability. I only wish we could say the same about the rest of quantum theory!