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Ahh yes, reddit. Now that’s a site I haven’t thought about in a long time.

LLMs do have their legitimate use-cases, but they are very limited. I just wrote down my thoughts and observations on that topic today:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33798614

Because they do not think.

For some of them, they’re worth it.

I’m dancing happily into the €20 game era with my Steam Deck.

But I neither want a “like” experience nor windows 11 – pass.

Vigilantes taking the law into their own hands with violence is always a sign of a healthy society. It also never leads to tragedy.

No you won’t.

You might want to take a low at https://bazzite.gg/

It’s what I’m using for my desktop and I’ve been happily gaming ever since.

This will be the year of the Linux desktop.

It feels quite big to me already.

Please tell me this is a joke.

I have zero trust in Microsoft’s intentions here.

That’s something people really have to get into their heads: an “answer” by an LLM ist just a series of high probability tokens. It’s only us humans who interpret reason and value into it. From the system’s standpoint it’s just numbers without any meaning whatsoever. And no amount of massaging will change that. LLMs are about as “intelligent” as a fancy database query.

Every couple of years I try out the latest “assistant”. I ask very simple queries, stuff that you might expect it to be able to handle. It always disappoints hilariously.

Questions where previous assistants consistently and utterly failed: “What’s the weather going to be like today?” “I want to go to [address], using public transport, can you tell me which routes I have to take?” “What are my appointments today?”

You’d think these are pretty obvious use-cases, but every iteration of assistants was completely incapable of getting even close to a satisfying answer. I don’t expect LLMs to fare better this time around.

So you’re starting to hate reddit more than X. Understandable. I think the social media companies are lost, they had their time.

… so they can learn what ads you’re willing to tolerate.

I see trash like Fortnite not being available on Linux as an absolute win.

It’s getting so tiresome. Improve products? Improve service? Improve quality? Improve efficiency? Improve literally anything? Nahh, let’s slap an LLM on it and see whether we can fire some people.