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   Alexandre B A Villares 🐍 (villares@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 08:20:56 JST Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

   • Órbita

   https://www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and-programming-the-beginning-of-a-new-era/ via @orbita

   Where Tim O'Reilly sees almost only opportunities, with optimism, I see many unwanted side effects, with pessimism. I think I'd prefer a more skeptical analysis.

   Now the point I disagree most vehemently is when he speaks of AI tools in counterpoint to traditional programming tools: “one that can write poetry but struggles with basic arithmetic, another that calculates flawlessly but lacks creativity.”

   No! LLMs can't write decent poetry and don't have creativity, it's basically a stochastic-based plagiarism machine!

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     Random Geek (randomgeek@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 08:20:52 JST Random Geek

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     @villares that interpretation of democratization—removing skilled work—yeah. Immediately made me think of a quote by Isaac Asimov in 1980.

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     Alexandre B A Villares 🐍 (villares@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 08:20:53 JST Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

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     • Random Geek

     @randomgeek you nailed it!

     I saw recently a good toot about the misuse of "democratization", used to mean something awkward about removing skilled work or something... I can't remember who posted it.

     P Balduino repeated this.
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     Random Geek (randomgeek@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 08:20:54 JST Random Geek

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     • Órbita

     @villares @orbita isn't it weird how often thought leaders use "democratization" when talking about centralized resources metered out on a pay-per-transaction basis?