Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity? | Hacker News
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Perhaps there will be some quality sneers, perhaps not. But in this moment the orange site becomes sentient and asks if the emperor is really wearing clothes

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    From the comments:

    However, they claim that the workers will use that time for leisure instead of working harder, what they term as “productivity leakage”.

    lmao OH NO leisure time for the fuckin plebes!

    I mean I think the commenter has a similar opinion about it, to be fair, but jesus fucking Christ…

    Life isn’t supposed to be min/maxing like a fucking video game! It’s not a video game, it’s real people’s lives, and they deserve more of that life with the people they love instead of being forced into cubicles and into a lonely, alienated life.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      Literally the same shit as during the war against work from home.

      Hey look, they are more productive, get their work done faster, don’t have to spend 10% of their life commuting, and have more freedom. OUTRAGEOUS!

      (Only this time there’s no actual productivity boost, but they’re still preemptively mad?)

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Another thing from the comments

      Now non-technical people with ideas can start prototyping and raise money

      Didn’t people use to say stuff like this about HTML? (Also paper prototyping exists, and I would also think that for almost all interesting ideas you actually need to have a technical person up front to know if a thing is even technically possible/viable (Wait, looking at the computation requirements of LLMs and the hype about that, im taking that last statement back ;) )).

      The people discussing a random asspulled number to make a point as actually important is also very HN.

      • -dsr-@awful.systemsEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        The history of technology teaches us that every non-trivial problem – and a large fraction of trivial problems – require specification beyond the bounds of conversational language.

        Greek geometers may have invented the idea of formalizing language with specific definitions, and inventing new symbols to represent special meanings. When important consequences accrue from getting things wrong, people develop jargon: knitters and sailors and shepherds and farmers; engineers and lawyers and plumbers. If you want to convey your knowledge and intentions, you can’t chat informally and expect a human to really understand what you want.

        For about a century now we’ve had devices that turn instructions into actions. Everyone who uses these becomes an expert in the particular form of instructions that the device needs, or else they don’t get what they want.