It’s a piece of crap that produces crap
What a ignorant stance.
If AI is “just a tool”, then guns are “just a tool”
yeah, guns are tools too. why point is this making? I missed it.
Both are true
So? Guns are tools designed specifically killing. What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?
I’m sorry but I have to disagree. Sometimes, unfortunately, guns are needed. For example, if a russian dictator decides to invade your country to wipe your culture. But LLMs and GenAI? Nobody asked for them and we’d be better off without those crappy. Just like with guns 🤪
Guess it’s just impossible to disentangle a tool’s existence in itself, with how it gets used. Police can use guns to address crime, so we don’t have to get robbed. But while at it, they can shoot way too many black people, as it seems to be the case in the US. Or they can do a better job. The tool doesn’t care. But those people will still be dead and that’s a shame. And with Putin, I’d argue we better find a way to tackle him other than send me over there with a gun in my hand. I’d really want to avoid that. And I didn’t ask for it, either.
There have long been organizations which restrict extra operating systems or even vim, dumb as that is. Hasn’t changed. Some companies are strict about ai tools now too. Some have tight security about LLM gateways; others don’t. Some send date to big corpos; some don’t.
This is the worst argument against “just a tool” I’ve heard.
You got me interested, so I read it. It’s good that the article is so short, it’s bad that there’s no actual argument there
Than I’m glad I didn’t waste too much of your time 🙂 There is an argument hidden in there, it is:
If your work isn’t about results anymore, but which tools you used, something is off and a tool isn’t just a tool anymore.
Especially if you’re forced to use something destructive like LLMs.
I felt like this was something meta, but thanks for putting it clearly. It is a reasonable observation, but I feel like it’s a bit tangential to tool being a tool and is more about the context luggage that a tool carries
Calling vim a “simple text edtior” will certainly raise some eyebrows.
