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The Rise of Whatever

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627 points cratermoon | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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icameron ◴[04 Jul 25 05:52 UTC] No.44461506[source]▶
Love this writing. One paragraph hit very close to home. I used to be the guy who could figure out obscure scripts by google-fu and rtfm and willpower. Now that skill has been completely obliterated by LLMs and everyone’s doing it- except it’s mostly whatever

> I don’t want to help someone who opens with “I don’t know how to do this so I asked ChatGPT and it gave me these 200 lines but it doesn’t work”.

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1. ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 ◴[04 Jul 25 07:30 UTC] No.44462046[source]▶
No one is losing that skill, as LLMs are wrong a lot of the time.

No one is becoming a retard omniscient using LLMs and anyone saying they are is lying and pushing a narrative.

Humans still correct things, humans understand systems have flaws, and they can utilize them and correct them.

This is like saying someone used Word's grammar correction feature and accepted all the corrections. It doesn't make sense, and the people pushing the narrative are disingenuous.

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2. wiseowise ◴[04 Jul 25 08:28 UTC] No.44462418[source]▶
> a retard omniscient

That’s a nice description, to be honest.