I find it interesting to think about cases where removing friction is a bad thing.
I had to think about this a bit more. I don't think we can ever fully remove friction. There are always tradeoffs. So we can reduce friction, and shift it to places where we don't mind it as much. But we cannot eliminate it; not really.
So, now, LLMs are sold as solving a lot of the friction of making something useful. But this may be a trick.
Remember Zuck saying "sharing is caring"? What he meant was: "sharing is good so that Cambridge Analytica can leech everything you ever shared straight from our DB and pitch you the Brexit narrative that will make you vote Leave and get filthy rich from that contract with the lobbyists."
Much of the AI narrative is the same trickery. They have to fake it until they make it because no one is going to just give their data. That's what I meant with lie. The reason why we know they lie is because Claude 3.7 was supposed to be able to do what Claude 4.6 still cannot really. They oversell. All of them are RalphWiggum-ing their pet projects spending millions on nonsense with mediocre results that then are oversold in round 2 of the marketing machine. "Claude developed a compiler"? Not really. Some dude spent 20,000 hours (of unspecified scale - H200-hours?) and then brute forced a compiler. That's not developing / engineering, it's called wasting valuable moneys.
Maybe it's the same reason I keep cleaning my own bathrooms.
It is, but not because you like the friction, but because you like the result! (I clean my own bathroom too, for the same reason, except a couple of years ago when I was recovering from a back injury.)
I had to think about this a bit more. I don't think we can ever fully remove friction. There are always tradeoffs. So we can reduce friction, and shift it to places where we don't mind it as much. But we cannot eliminate it; not really.
Remember Zuck saying "sharing is caring"? What he meant was: "sharing is good so that Cambridge Analytica can leech everything you ever shared straight from our DB and pitch you the Brexit narrative that will make you vote Leave and get filthy rich from that contract with the lobbyists."
Much of the AI narrative is the same trickery. They have to fake it until they make it because no one is going to just give their data. That's what I meant with
lie. The reason why we know they lie is because Claude 3.7 was supposed to be able to do what Claude 4.6 still cannot really. They oversell. All of them are RalphWiggum-ing their pet projects spending millions on nonsense with mediocre results that then are oversold in round 2 of the marketing machine. "Claude developed a compiler"? Not really. Some dude spent 20,000 hours (of unspecified scale - H200-hours?) and then brute forced a compiler. That's not developing / engineering, it's called wasting valuable moneys.It is, but not because you like the friction, but because you like the result! (I clean my own bathroom too, for the same reason, except a couple of years ago when I was recovering from a back injury.)