The Attractor Of The Banal
There’s a new way of making “AI” worse, and it’s most likely already in your IDE.
No-one who does any original creative thinking, difficult problem solving, or innovative algorithmic design is ever going to lose their jobs to the current generation of super hyped “AI”.
There, I’ve said it. It’s apparently controversial too, for some reason, as it’s pretty much one of the top 10 most popular ways of engagement farming on social media right now³. Please don’t discuss it in the comments.
This is because, as was demonstrated recently¹ by an ouroboros like attempt to do so, the current generation of LLMs very much seem to require original data upon which to gorge themselves.
All those delicious real numbers arranged in vectors and suchlike that those little neurons⁴ use to learn their back propogated pseudo-haphazard probability dance and assure you that they’re definitely correct, until they change their mind when you tell them they’re not.
It is therefore with wry amusement, as someone who is a habitual user of vim and whose only dalliance with modern IDEs is the most perfect Xcode, that I see many modern day (and I use that term very loosely) IDEs have now started to enable “AI Integration”.
Or, as we call it in the trade, “type in your OpenAI⁵ key here, we don’t actually…
