Addiction is Not a Sin

I do not approve of LLM-"AI",1 and do not like to see it used. I think I see why people would use "AI", and am reaching a kind of sorrowful acceptance of their doing so. These articles make me feel good about myself, and everything. Thinking about why I write these programs and articles gives me a bit of what seems like insight into our fellow humans who are getting into the LLM-“AI” thing. I feel helpless in the face of what is going on in the world today, and this work makes me feel less helpless. There’s nothing to vote for—and may never be again; in the USA, neither side comes close to what we really need; I am too old and decrepit to march, much less riot; I fear that a serious revolution would make things much worse before they are better. It all seems hopeless, much of the time. I program because I can. I write about it because I can. It is a thing I can do, and do moderately well. The computer can be brought to do what I intend it to do; I can make the code be shaped as I see…