AI Can't Care

(mooreds.com)

30 points | by mooreds 22 hours ago

2 comments

  • willtemperley 5 hours ago
    In a sense they do care. Anthropic / OpenAI care that your projects are successful because that means more revenue for themselves. Therefore, their models are designed to care that your products work.
    • ultrarunner 4 hours ago
      It seems to me the incentive, if anything, is to make the codebase so complex and “write-only” that developers become entirely dependent on LLMs to make any change whatever. They care that you keep burning tokens, not that those tokens accomplish anything for you.
  • spacebacon 16 hours ago
    Correct. LLMs are technically semiotic infrastructure. Empirically proven with computational semiotics.
    • sublinear 13 hours ago
      Yes, and I think some people forget that the whole point of an application is to make that semiotic infrastructure into a coherent system.

      LLMs are a great tool, but their misuse is delusional. We need to make a lot of tiny decisions that cannot be delegated away so easily and carelessly for those applications to work properly.

      The push for AI just puts a spotlight on this decades-long power struggle to prioritize which decisions are more important. This isn't a new thing at all. I really wish people would get their heads out of the sand and open their eyes to the crumbling of the institutions they should be defending with a clearer mind. This isn't about human vs machine. This is about quality of results.