It is technically possible to drink soup with a shovel but I don't really wanna do it.

I might be wrong here. What's the use case?

I really wanted to write a well structured answer to your comment but then I saw the username and was like "nah I'm fine"

I'm pretty undecided on where I stand on LLMs, but I have to point out that I use them before making my point. The thing with AI is that the output we get from it is not deterministic. With assembly lines you can get a good enough deterministic output (having component failures in mind) that everything is gonna be fine. I've never been to a car factory, but I'm sure there are guard rails in place to ensure minimum damage if something goes wrong. There is simply not such a thing with AI, thus the programmer has to be the guardrail. The blog post leans a bit heavy into sentimental words for the programmer's mind, but I'm guessing this is what they mean by the "deep human thoughts" part.

I do love some comments where people have nuanced thoughts on LLMs, so thank you for sharing them!

I'm more so undecided on them because of the social effects on them. I am all for innovation but social media hasn't been the ideal example either (Facebook famously has young girls who are insecure who might delete their pics and not upload them and would show them predatory ads on top of it with countless other examples)

I am one of the younger folks on this website and I honestly feel like it might've been much better for us in the past pre social-media perhaps.

Have we as a society ever truly reflected on innovation. Nuclear innovation comes to my mind in terms of arms race (ironically which I believe that Nuclear could've been really great for power production and I hope that it gets more looked into)

I am also unsure if regulation might make sense, regulation has been tried and nothing seems to work. I had a decent chat with simon once and sort of the conclusion from that and others seems to be that the cat is out of the box.

Thus we might have to think some more about the sentimental values instead as well and do proper evaluations on if it should be used and when.

The whole culture towards AI perhaps can be seen like a fake projection of confidence. Similar to how as you point out from the deterministic/undeterministic part of it from technical point of view as well. (Many) People are projecting AI to be completely deterministic when in reality it sort of isn't.

did you even read the blog post my guy

Skimmed "write by hand or typewriter" yeah I'm not like that, I am rote based though so have to type into a computer to remember notes

Who wants to f around with a typewriter anyway I guess this guy in particular does

How you gonna blog with a typewriter

I really feel like university has drifted me away from the spirit of engineering. The topics sound really fun in theory, but the execution of the professors is so poor that it really makes you want to "just pass" the class. Therefore, I really want to reignite my passion in 2026. Work on my basic skills and get them as close as possible to perfection, maybe dabble in some open source projects. Hell, maybe even start my own. I can see myself getting into theory again, but I want to do it out of passion, and not necessity. In terms of non-technical skills, philosophy is what is on my mind right now. I don't really like the world view that I currently possess and stoicism sounds fun, so I will be giving that a try. Those were the concrete plans. I used to have an artsy side when I was a kid, and that side comes out and gets repressed by me every once in a while. I don't really know what I need to do to reignite that passion, so any suggestion is wholeheartedly appreciated.