I’ve been making this argument for over three years now to little success
I’m also extremely sceptical of the notion that there is anything truly useful to LLMs, whatever benefit they might have is likely to wash out at scale because of their variability and UI (prompts and chatbots are an incredibly poor UI for productive work), but I I’ve generally avoided making that argument until recently because devs are notoriously bad at assessing what genuinely improves the process of making software
My stance on #LLM :
1. There _might_ be some useful use cases with this technology that could be worth exploring.
2. However, it is glaringly obvious that, as of now, their main purpose is to power the mother of all investments bubbles.
3. Which leads us to the present trillion dollar business case for "we must build energy- and water-wasting data centers everywhere so that we can scrape every single website a thousand times a month for new training data!"
4. Thus, there is currently pretty much no ethical way of using LLMs.
5. Any ethical exploration of LLM use cases will thus have to wait until the bubble has burst, the investors have moved on to the next scam, and we can sort through the rubble to check what is left.
