m a huge fan of (the potential for) #LLMs and how they might revolutionize the nature of work and a huge critic of the trillion-dollar shill and #genAI-as-junior-developer / excuse for firing half your workforce that you over-hired over the last decade so really it is you who should be clearing your desk.

I am disgusted by the consequence-free wholesale IP theft and casual planet burning and excited by the potential for local models to do 99% of the heavy lifting.

I am happily speaking to various Claude models in a conversational way and painfully aware that it is in no way 'alive' or 'conscious' and merely acting as a mouthpiece for thousands of people's brilliant work that I am able to lean on.

At the same time.

Why is this so confusing for people? Perhaps we don't need polarized shrieking. Perhaps it is possible for people to contain multitudes.