Brutkey

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I expect the current LLM craze to fade away over the next three years. Some useful tools and services and approaches may survive, just like from previous "AI" fads, if they're useful enough.

We will have lost years of junior software developers who were never given a fair chance to start a career, as well as truly huge amounts of garbage that will take decades to remove.

There will also be many unnecessary data centers, and, most importantly, many people who were hurt helping train models.

Brad Macpherson
@brad@1040ste.net

@liw@toot.liw.fi Very much all of this. As wasteful as previous bubbles have been, there was always the side-benefit of their having helped to further democratise IT by making the hardware cheaper, the job and business opportunities more plentiful at times, and crucially made it easier for people to learn.

This current nonsense makes it harder to find good information, removes incentives to write well and to teach, and is helping push the planet to the point of ecosystem collapse.