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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[15 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44570646[source]▶
People like communicating in natural language.

LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

That is where the inevitabilism comes from. No one* wants to learn how to use a computer, they want it to be another entity that they can just talk to.

*I'm rounding off the <5% who deeply love computers.

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globular-toast ◴[15 Jul 25 13:58 UTC] No.44571238[source]▶
LLMs are nowhere near the first step. This is Python, an almost 35 year old language:

    for apple in sorted(bag):
        snake.eat(apple)
The whole point of high-level programming languages is we can write code that is close enough to natural language while still being 100% precise and unambiguous.
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1. Workaccount2 ◴[15 Jul 25 19:21 UTC] No.44574845{3}[source]▶
My 65yr old mother will never use python.

What she wants is to tell her phone to switch it's background to the picture she took last night of the family.

That is the inevitabilism.

Forget about the tiny tech bubble for a moment and see the whole world.