Some thoughts on LLMs

All photos are shot on an Olympus Trip MD3, loaded with an Ilfords HP5 Plus, at Goulinas . The world of software engineering is shifting really fast. The stochastic parrot that was good for sloppy snippets is now smarter and can code really well. Not smarter in the sense of a human. Smarter in the sense of “this multi-dimension vector really knows what comes next”. It has been called the third golden age of software engineering* and really smart people think this is the new way forward. The problem was never writing the code. It’s all the processes that lead up to that moment, but also, the decisions taken when writing the code. LLMs are just another arrow in the quiver. The ethics are bad. Really bad. Copyright infringements with multiple lawsuits already filed, high resource consumption that leads to resource deprivation for local communities, and use in war such as the attack at the Minab school at Iran. The points mentioned here only scrapes the surface. I am not surprised that…