He’s never been a fan of AI:
I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs…this is still a crowd that is explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical."
Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.
And debating dicks is pointless.
Also, so many good phrases:
- “ICE is using LLMs as accountability sinks for waving extremists through their recruitment processes”
- “Most of them are up to their eyebrows in Cialdini-style cognitive traps”
- “tools for dismantling their own communities and industries, all done in overt collaboration with the ultra right”
- “these ‘systems thinkers’ no longer seem to understand that software is a system built on the labour of thousands”
- “Undergraduate-level security issues”; “debating dicks is pointless.”
This guy needs a column at The Register!
Related, here’s a round of things that can wrong with AI coding.