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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | 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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layer8 ◴[15 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44571025[source]▶
People also like reliable and deterministic behavior, like when they press a specific button it does the same thing 99.9% of the time, and not slightly different things 90% of the time and something rather off the mark 10% of the time (give and take some percentage points). It's not clear that LLMs will get us to the former.
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ryankrage77 ◴[15 Jul 25 23:20 UTC] No.44576951[source]▶
To a user, many modern UI's are unpredictable and unreliable anyway. "I've always done it this way, but it's not working...".
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1. layer8 ◴[15 Jul 25 23:41 UTC] No.44577113[source]▶
I agree, but UIs don't need to be that way. Non-smart light switches, thermostats, household appliances, etc. generally aren't that way, and that’s why many people prefer them, and expect UIs to work similarly — which they overall typically still do.