Paul Cantrell
Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.
A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.
And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.
This is a post about LLM-generated code.
Paul Cantrell
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud
But BUT just imagine how many more hours you could have spent on that bug if the code containing that race condition were 3x more verbose, had no coherent large-scale logic or sense of underlying intent, were full of gratuitous repetition containing slight inconsistencies, and was full of bizarre and insidious problems that look normal at first glance. With LLMs, this could be yours!!
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
@inthehands I recently spent 3+ days trying to resolve a race condition that I couldn't reproduce. (I think it affected 1,000 out of 200,000 users.) Good luck resolving this LLMs!
Jess👾
@inthehands My worry is that after they rip out all the porcelain thrones and put cardboard ones in place, and the cardboard ones fall apart after a few days, they won't reinstall porcelain ones. They'll just make everyone subscribe to a toilet replacement service that replaces your shitty toilet with a new shitty toilet every week forever.
Nire Bryce
@inthehands dont worry about it, the Agents will handle that
Paul Cantrell
@JessTheUnstill
Magic of the free market at work babeeeee!!!
Ian Z
@inthehands I joked about this to @nixCraft. They said LLMs are technical debt generating machines. I replied saying that sounded like a lot of job security for human developers.
Paul Cantrell
@init6
TIL
init6
@inthehands even funnier if you know what orangeberg pipe is/was
Paul Cantrell
@AnguaDelphine
I suspect their passing the Turing Test is temporary: we use heuristics and experience for detecting the deception, and LLMs temporarily broke those heuristics by being new in our experience. But now that we all know what GPT smells like….
Angua :spinny_fox_disability:
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
Capitalism in a nutshell literally.
The scariest thing is that some of these LLMs have managed to pass the Turing test - that would see the real replacement theory.
Paul Cantrell
“What do you mean by ‘cardboard toilets,’ Paul? What does that look like in practice, really?”
Well:
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