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joschjosch@floss.social
Oct 27, 2026, 7:21 PM
@valpackett My critique on LLMs is not denying that they *are* incredibly powerful. Especially when wielded by an expert. My argument is that in many cases, the cost they have does not outweigh their benefit because in the end what we have is "more code faster" and it's just source code. We do software, so we think that our thing is so special and important but it's just software. *Real* problems are created by these machines and we don't see them because of how privileged we are. @cwebber
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Val Packett 🧉valpackett@treehouse.systems
Oct 27, 2026, 8:10 PM
@josch yea absolutely agreed, and I don't think they're as powerful as the boosters claim either
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joschjosch@floss.social
Oct 27, 2026, 8:23 PM
@valpackett And I'm also 100% with you on the point of: the attention and energy we spend on LLMs can/should very often instead go into making traditional software better. Your comparison to rust is apt. There are ways to make C memory safe as well by bolting on additional things. There are actually many interesting projects in- and outside of academia that work on this. Instead of fixing these we throw money and time on a non-deterministic band-aid...
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