I believe many of us here knows that the idea of a simple prompt to make something more than a sketch or a prototype don’t really work.
Unless you steer and understand what an LLM will produce, you will end up with something that possible ”works” that has no future plans baked in. Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say.
I’d say that vibecoded software is similar. My speculation is that current breed of LLMs do not have an I, and I really don’t exactly knows what goes on in those vast arrays of numbers. There’s something there perhaps, but no person.
Still even in the short term someone wants to run a company that expects responsibility of its organisation, how are you going to exact that responsibility if no one actually understands how the thing the organisation makes works.
Maybe a simple crud system can be made fast and loose. But a bank settlement? A pacemaker? Deletion of sensitive data?
I know some companies are betting on that the agent can fix what the agent breaks. It may be true, but up until now everytime I try to relax on strict steering of an agent it tends to go badly rather fast.
Again I don’t know, but I think as long as we don’t invent synthetic persons with their own ideas on what they want to do, which btw opens a massive can of worms, the current situation will persist. However clever the current breeds of systems are.
I do want to state that a find the current trajectory fascinating. I use LLMs daily, it expands the number solutions I can explore. But in order to make something I feel is mine. There’s a choice and the buck stops with me.
Imagine AI making your favorite book or film. Could it be prompted into making Lord of the Rings or whatever it is that you enjoy? I think those who only watched the film might say yes :-) Those who love the book might say no.
There’s a few things on this. I’ve read the trilogy many many times during my life. Every reread I found something new, something I hadn’t considered before. Still it was eerie to see Peter Jackson’s rendition because it was very close to how I picture the book in my mind.
So, I think if you know just a little bit of film making and writing and LLMs you know you could not prompt any of them into existence with just saying ”write lord of the rings”
But if you have an idea for a creative project, using an LLM to explore ideas can definitely be a fruitful endeavour.
The gods don’t give gifts by ghost goblins cannot be dismissed as slop. I’ve personally used LLM to explore large sets of photographs to use as a backdrop for a DJ set, essentially to have the set tell a story.
So, as most things, it’s complicated. But at the same time I’m curious what will happen next
And in 10 years we are going to do double blind studies and realize that nobody can tell the difference. A fact that will be ignored for the next half a century.
For me it was a few years ago. I had seen a twitter comment referencing astrology in a spat with two black female musicians in the US. My preconception was to look up why that kind of superstition was prevalent in those circles.
The answer I got from chapgpt was essentially that it has very little to do with superstition and all to do with being able to use a language to talk about stuff while still not move outside cultural norms. More sort of a secret language where you can probe questions like if your boyfriend is violent, or if your friend is having an affair.
I think last year I saw some research on how the reading of tea leaves originated in the ottoman empire, it was remarkably similar. The point is that I learned something new that would have been extraordinarily hard to google, or even understand without putting some serious study into the subject.
Unless you steer and understand what an LLM will produce, you will end up with something that possible ”works” that has no future plans baked in. Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say.
I’d say that vibecoded software is similar. My speculation is that current breed of LLMs do not have an I, and I really don’t exactly knows what goes on in those vast arrays of numbers. There’s something there perhaps, but no person.
Still even in the short term someone wants to run a company that expects responsibility of its organisation, how are you going to exact that responsibility if no one actually understands how the thing the organisation makes works.
Maybe a simple crud system can be made fast and loose. But a bank settlement? A pacemaker? Deletion of sensitive data?
I know some companies are betting on that the agent can fix what the agent breaks. It may be true, but up until now everytime I try to relax on strict steering of an agent it tends to go badly rather fast.
Again I don’t know, but I think as long as we don’t invent synthetic persons with their own ideas on what they want to do, which btw opens a massive can of worms, the current situation will persist. However clever the current breeds of systems are.
I do want to state that a find the current trajectory fascinating. I use LLMs daily, it expands the number solutions I can explore. But in order to make something I feel is mine. There’s a choice and the buck stops with me.