@glyph I've been saying this for years ever since "it just speeds up the boilerplate" first ruffled my feathers and I had to sit and examine why.

If boilerplate is somehow prohibitively uncomfortable to write, that's a pain signal here to tell you something. You're missing an abstraction! Just like touching a hot stove should signal you to not do the thing. Choosing to just do the boilerplate faster with stolen training data, even if it's a task the bot can easily do correctly, is like shooting up morphine instead of moving your hand off the stove. And nearly all LLM apologia is like this!

If nothing else, I have a far more fundamental respect for friction* and pain signals than I did five years ago.