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Open questions to devs concerning LLMs
1291 sats \ 7 comments \ @plebpoet 22 Apr devs

Hey it's me

  • an average person meaning not specialized in anything, college educated, married w/out kids
  • a bitcoiner
  • an artist
  • not using LLMs, not interested in talking to LLMs

and I have some questions for you

  • devs who are discovering pockets of new, attractive capabilities within your grasp, on the other side of a few keyboard clicks
  • aka using LLMs to code
Note: These questions came to mind a few weeks ago and I sketched them out in vague outline. I'm not editing them into shape, hoping that by keeping them loose, you'll fetch further out for your answer.

Questions

  1. AI and open internet - can these coexist?
  2. the talent in bitcoin vs the talent in AI - where do the two align?
  3. where does coding (programming) end? what's your personal career high?
  4. coding as craft - why do you do it
I'm asking as a friend! I'm genuinely very curious, hoping to discover common ground :) Thank you
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300 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 23 Apr
  1. AI and open internet - can these coexist?
Yes. Because the incentive for an open internet remains the same. Also there's an additional incentive now: without an open internet, AI will become incredibly expensive. After all, Zuck & Co allegedly trained llama on libgen...
However I expect that traffic to social media, news sites and information repositories will decrease as people will allow the AI to middleman their interactions. Which sucks. But maybe one day we get to the matrix-style download packages.
  1. the talent in bitcoin vs the talent in AI - where do the two align?
Hopefully AI coders will gravitate more towards open source. Some do today and there's alignment between sovereign compute and sovereign money. But that's a minority in AI and a majority in Bitcoin, so overall there isn't much alignment I feel. The VC bros will be VC broing AI all the same though.
  1. where does coding (programming) end?
It never does. No matter how advanced AI gets, there's still use for coders that understand the output or can weed out errors. If not white hat then black hat. We'll see.
  1. coding as craft - why do you do it
Yes. It's an art form to bring your idea into existence, this also goes for code. However, coded ideas will probably become a commodity now. I think that this just means tons more of bad ideas being realized but that's okay, because the value of a great idea won't change because of that. There still be good trees inside the forest.
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58 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 22 Apr
yes internet & ai can and will coexist
They must because ai needs the web to browse context
However, ai can reduce the traffic on the open web a lot. Which makes it less lucrative to have a website.
Therefore, yes they coexist. But it will be a smaller open web
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @realBitcoinDog 22 Apr
I think AI is a tool to help someone who knows how to write code write better.
It’s already possible to look at code and have no idea how it works or what it does.
But it helps! An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) like Visual Studio already auto-completes code as you type, and you have to know if it’s not what you want. LLMs are a further tool!
Good questions!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet OP 22 Apr
but you didn't answer those questions :(
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1100 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 22 Apr
I wrote a bit about related topics in Will AI end the social internet?.1
AI and open internet - can these coexist?
I don't think they can. X already uses bots as an excuse to KYC people. I expect it'll get worse as AI goes beyond passing the Turing Test. Perhaps there will be an arms race and something beyond KYC checks will gate the open internet. If not, services that prevent abuse by checking for human-like digital behavior will be abused because machines will have human-like digital behavior.
Maybe that's okay. Maybe that's what people want. Maybe people want what they want - human or not.
the talent in bitcoin vs the talent in AI - where do the two align?
Outside of developing foundational models and task-specific models, the talent in AI is dressing up and composing models to do useful things. Bitcoin has tons of regulatory scrutiny that AI does not, so dressing up and composing bitcoin protocol things is relatively difficult. Bitcoin will attract less talent, develop more slowly, and produce relatively anemic products as a result imo.
where does coding (programming) end?
I suspect AI will do to programming what photographs did to painting. Where programming isn't valued for the human element, it won't be done by humans. Programming will cease being done where it's only done for utility.
what's your personal career high?
I don't know what this means, but if I take it to mean, "where did my programming career peak" ... I think it's still peaking, still referencing related past experience while encountering new, more difficult experiences. I'm working on weird problems that I'm drawn to that are too weird for anyone else to care about until I prove their utility. That doesn't really change with AI. It just makes expressing my weird desires and solutions easier.
coding as craft - why do you do it
It's the most powerful, valuable, impactful medium for self-expression that I've found.

Footnotes

  1. I'm happy to be embarrassed by my writing only a year ago. ↩
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Nzowashua 22 Apr
AI AND BITCOIN TALENT TO BE COMBINED IS MUST SO AS TO GATE BETTER SERVICE WHICH IS HIGHLY DEVELOPED
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet OP 22 Apr
tell us more, this is the energy I'm looking for
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