Surely, the reasons are multivariate with all kinds of interactions and feedback mechanisms between the variables.
It is really a good example of what natural dimension reducers we are, even when we know it makes no sense. It is like we can't but help ourselves to reduce things to one explanatory variable.
My favorite is the news headline "The market went up today because of X".
It is a good example of how we are underestimating the human in the loop.
I know nothing about making a game. I am sure LLMs could help me try to make a game but surely they would help someone who has tried to make a game before more. On the other hand, the expert game developer is probably not helped as much either by the LLM as the person in the middle.
Scale that to basically all subjects. Then we get different opinions on the value of LLMs.
I am about 70% through my first paid month with Cursor.
I should say I have budgeted that I am going to pay $20 for something AI right now no matter what.
Cursor is worth it, but I should have had an exact project in mind when I subscribed. I don't think I am going to get my money's worth completely this month because of how generous Claude's free tier is. I do like just asking the web ui random things sometimes.
At one point a few weeks back I did have overlap with o1, Cursor paid and Claude free tier all at the same time. I know I am not subscribing again to chatGPT until the non-preview o1 is out.
I do like the Cursor UI but there is something about copy/paste with the chatbot that I also like in conjunction with non-AI VScode or jupyter. Like the difference between oil paints and pastels. Both probably have their place in the tool belt.
It is hard to say. I use to be a pack a day smoker but I think I would even be shocked by the level of smoking if I was transported back to 1985 at this point.
We seem to romanticize the past as if before smartphones kids would spent their time reading Aristotle and doing calisthenics.
No one had a smartphone when I was a kid and instead I spent hours a day playing Nintendo or watching trash TV.
On the other hand, it wasn't that long ago that people could go to the grocery store and push a shopping cart without looking at their phone the whole time.
I think these are just the problems of a society of abundance.
Imagine believing there would be something as powerful as Tiktok and it wouldn't be used for propaganda purposes.
It is just boring agreeing with these morons at this point. Let them live in their dream world as they pretend to be smart. Sheep are easy to herd.