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> We engineers understand that LLMs are products under development. They only work correctly under certain circumstances

Looking around me, engineers do not understand that. Instead, they have exactly same overblown expectations and actively push for LLM everywhere. They will call you ludite if you say anything else.

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Wear that Luddite badge with honor. They were not anti technology[0], they fought for worker rights during an age of rapid rise of new technology.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-l...

"Ludite" "low-IQ" "meat LLM" "you will be left behind"

The behavior of the boosters is basically the opposite of how to make friends and influence people. I've been through plenty of hype cycles, and this is the first one where they seem to need to insult and threaten everyone.

I don't get it. And I don't feel any need to entertain it.

I have a bunch of coworkers who paste various LLM outputs to every chat while discussing issues in production.

- "LLM X told that we should try to add this into configuration file – SOMETHING_SOMETHING = false."

- "There is no SOMETHING_SOMETHING configuration option, you have a full source, grep for it."

- "But should we try at least?"

That's also because of seeing them as technology under development. The overblown expectations are because of their potential in the future. The glass is half full today. It was almost empty just a few years ago. The water level is rising with an unprecedented rate. But we shouldn't forget it's still half empty right now. More importantly, we are bad at predicting how actual people use the technology.

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