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This essay reserved a mere fraction for LLMs/technology. On that point, I think you're spot on. While vibe coding/writing carelessly produces mostly noisy bullshit today, and empowers imposters and liars more than most, one day it will produce mostly incredible things. While the algorithms promote bullshit today, one day they'll be replaced by something that doesn't promote bullshit.
This essay spends most of its time on bullshit which is primitive and timeless. People lie to their advantage. Competing with them requires telling the truth louder.
It's a waste of time to hate the technology or the bullshitters imo. There is something to learn from them though.
Ah yes more like bullshit in the sense of saying word salad that sounds true
It's difficult to even explain a bullshitter, there are so many nuances, we as hierarchical creatures have an inbuilt need to clamber to the top like the lobsters 🦞
I know a few software sales guys and they are particularly good at massaging the truth
Look at buying shit, at retail, sometimes if I can't sleep I'll put on the late night shopping channels for background noise and I get sucked in to their bs 🤣🤣🤣
Could end up buying a 6000 dollar water bed that massages your balls
Is there an argument that this is like a boomer saying we must use paper road atlases and learn to read them to navigate rather than use satellite navigation
But then on reflection the world wasn't flooded with fake bullshit maps, I guess there was a bit of roads not being in the right place but then your point wins over as the boomer who knows how to read the paper atlas in the glovebox can get himself out of trouble
Or is the draughtsman that hand draws the schematics for the architect rather than CAD which ironically has probably been replaced by an even further advanced option
Actually there's so many I could list like the quill pen over the typewriter which again supercedes into computers slotting closer to our present day point you make
Is there an argument that technology just moves on and although it's nice to look back in wonder that code was written all by hand it's just easier to let technology do it's thing
The one thing that counts is Technology moves on when it delivers superior results at lower cost that's key and if it's bullshit it's not superior
And how do we verify what is superior? Currently do the work like k00b says but it won't be long until technology solves this problem and in the future we'll be lamenting about how we sifted for hours looking for bugs while the young kid on his hoverboard is thinking OK boomer
And lastly this is a tough one to explain but we come from a mindset of work of getting up everyday and going to work, in the future people will look at us going to the fiat mines for 40 years the same way they look at children in the mills in the Victorian era
It might look like bullshit but at some point you have to let go of the reigns and let the engine takeover
Unless im just suffering from proof of work derangement syndrome