A fairly clear-eyed view of the LLM landscape. After plugging away with these tools for a few days now, this quote resonates:
Coding with automated systems like this is intoxicating. It’s addictive, because it’s the lootbox effect. We don’t get addicted to rewards. We get addicted to potential rewards. Notice that gamblers aren’t actually motivated by having won. They’re motivated by maybe winning next time. It can lead us to the glassy eyed stare with a bucket of quarters at a slot machine, and it can lead us to 2am “one more prompt, maybe it’ll work this time” in a hurry.