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Somebody convince me LLMs are not net-negative productivity.

They seem much better at producing bullshit that’s difficult to filter through, than performing actually useful work.




I have found copilot autocomplete to be somewhat useful for small blocks of code.

Coca-Cola and Toys R Us have found them useful for making terrible commercials cheaper than making terrible commercials by hand and way cheaper than making good commercials that actually improve their brand image. Seems weird they’d do that for immensely expensive holiday television spots rather than throwaway 5 second YouTube spots or something but hey — I’m clearly not a corporate genius.




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