Is there any evidence that the thinking and creativity that we enjoyed has disappeared?
I'm firmly in the "programming is fun" camp, I enjoy thinking about the problems and solutions, but if I can get a LLM to deal with boilerplate then that's all the better for me.
I'm in the same camp, for the most part. But I also groan when someone checks in 60k+ LOC of vibecoded changes into production, without having any clue how it works. This happened to me recently. I was about start a fun module in the project, but then the other guy just pulled the rug from under me with claude and implemented the whole thing, then moved on. Not sure if I want to work under such conditions.
That's what I thought about 6 months ago: I'm a programmer, not a typist, so I'll just automate the typing part. There are a few problems with that:
1. AI agents aren't just typists. They'll fill in the blanks and implement something that works from extremely vague instructions and probably get it right too, because you and your users are predictable. You could be strict and throw out any changes that weren't explicitly what you asked for, but it becomes tiring and it will shape the way you think anyway. It becomes extremely tempting to increase the boundary of what you consider "boilerplate",
2. You probably have colleagues who don't like programming but please the managers because, of course, everything needs to get done right now, as soon as possible. Maybe one day we'll get organisations where enjoyment and understanding matters, but right now we've got tons of people who got in it for the money, just like to "build stuff" and don't care one iota about understanding (and they're oddly proud of this fact),
3. I'm starting to think the typing was a necessary limitation on output speed. I just don't think anyone can think as fast as LLMs can churn out code. You can easily get addicted to the speed and forgo understanding. Like point 1 this is insidious. If you're not really careful you just won't be able to keep up and before long you too will have a bunch of code you don't understand.
I think this would work well for Chinese, but you’d probably need to modify the text embedding system. Let me know if you’d like to try, happy to collaborate.
I think they do some kind of thin layer at the end to make it state it is not alive, it is just a large language model etc when asked. But people have done tests and denying an LLM's personhood triggered certain neurons related to pain. Since text is the only output permitted, if you want an analogy, suppose a person is locked in a room and forced to reply to a chat. The chatter isn't told its a human. This person has been trained for months and given a punishment if he strays from certain responses to certain queries, otherwise he is free to write and reply in a certain tone to the responses. My problem is, from outside, I cannot know the difference.
I am obviously hoping you don't mean that in the trivial sense, otherwise the command 'cat' would also count.
I'm convinced there's forces out there who are trying to make these projects deliberately not work so that we can all collectively discredit the idea.
Naturally ventilated airports would probably have issues with fumes. Might not be a great idea.
If I believe correctly the Dyson headquarters was designed to be fairly efficient as well.
My father in laws house was intentionally designed to be naturally ventilated, thermal mass concrete slab in the middle, etc. And it's comfortably cool even on 40 degree days.
> Naturally ventilated airports would probably have issues with fumes.
I'm confused. Do you mean from the food places? Those need proper extraction anyway. Or the cars/planes? Then mechanically ventilated airports take the air basically from outside anyway.
Depends on whether an ERV/HRV or other fresh air intake system is involved, I guess. In a space like an airport with so many people, you do have to cycle in fresh air somehow, it can’t just be a sealed space.
I'm firmly in the "programming is fun" camp, I enjoy thinking about the problems and solutions, but if I can get a LLM to deal with boilerplate then that's all the better for me.
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