All I wanted was to make a budget, and now I have all these feelings

Honestly, I'm pretty sick of the discourse around AI. It's intensely polarised, both sides lack a lot of nuance, and the arguments are just rehashed over and over again. There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for sitting on the fence, and yet that's where I have found myself. My LLM usage has spiked massively in the past few weeks, and I feel very conflicted about it. I'm hoping that by writing my thoughts down in this post I can help myself to crystallise my stance a little bit more, and dig into some feelings that I have experienced about my use of AI, and perhaps AI in general. Fair warning at the outset: this is a long post. 1. An Abundance of ContextOn this website I maintain an AI statement. It may or may not be worth having a read of that, because I think I have failed in my attempts to follow some of the rules I set for myself. I still do not run any of the creative output of this site through an LLM, and nor do my other creative pursuits see contact with an AI agent or chat…

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