LLMs are like handwritten notes

This is my best attempt at formulating the thoughts that have been tumbling around my head for the past two years. It’s a bit pessimistic but I think that is kind of appropriate. AI != LLMs. This is one of my biggest annoyances with the current state of “ai”. Every company wants to add some fancy new ✨ AI ✨ feature into their product and most of the time either they would be better served with a more traditional ml or rl model or even worse it could litterally be a tiny bit of good old fashioned conditional or regular expression. AI itself feels like a horrible misnomer. It is my deepest wish that LLMs had never been marketed or branded as inteligent entities. Linking LLMs to intellegance was a fatal mistake in my opinion as it subtly encouraged leaning on them more and more trusting them to behave like a human. My personal philosophy for LLMs / generative technology boils down to 3 points: Never ever use an LLM to write anything I present as my own writing. Refuse to use generative…