I doubt it's going to go the same way as search. You can't run Google on consumer hardware, but you can run LLMs locally.
At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just stick to older models.
You could also argue that proprietary models gated by an API are better than anything you can run locally, and yeah maybe those will get worse with time.
They're not going to get any worse than what you can run locally though. If they do, open models will overtake them, and then we'd be in a better position overall.
I feel like I gamed this somehow. Instead of looking for serial killers, I looked for anyone who didn't look like a programming language inventor and got 10/10.
I think you're missing what they're trying to say. You can still select what you actually need in a different order, but changing the order gives more immediate feedback from autocomplete. The order has pretty much zero impact on the performance of a query. A parser would still have to read out the whole query, and it's not expensive to unravel into a more efficient implementation if it would really help.
The problem is that SQL forces you to think about what to select before you even say where you're selecting from. There's nothing a client can do to recommend columns if it doesn't know where you're selecting from. It's pretty cumbersome to have to SELECT * FROM x and then go back and erase the * to actually get auto-completions.
It basically forces you to tell it what you want before you even know what the options are.
Umm because medicine is supposed to be about helping other people? Why would people spend billions of dollars trying to help others work through a natural disaster?
To me that's one of the worst things about modern pharmaceutical companies, they care more about making money than actually helping people.
> I'm not him, but the older I get the worse I see interactions with social media getting, so I don't think anyone is going to outgrow it.
*her (i wonder if that changes your perception of my comment :P)
> Do you see your peers growing out of social media? Or do you think it will be a permanent fixture in their lives?
Kind of, but not really? I see it more transforming into something else. It definitely seems like a lot of people my age and younger are more cautious about social media compared to most millennials, but that doesn't really seem to stop us from using it. I'm really happy to see more of a shift towards open platforms like Mastodon, I'm just not sure where that's going to head.
As a youngish adult (27) this is some of what I feel:
- Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and corporations keep on trucking along with an endless growth mindset, not caring about the consequences of what is essentially a cancer
- Somehow I lucked out and ended up turning my favourite hobby into a job that pays really well, but something feels empty. I don't feel like I'm working any harder than people in lower paying jobs. I don't feel like I'm providing more value. It kind of makes me sick how bad income inequality seems to be getting. People around me in tech jobs seem to constantly want more, while I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
- Social media is crippling social interactions. It's taking away a deeper form of connection and replacing it with something more surface level, while also warping people's perceptions of reality.
- Most forms of social media make you feel like crap (with how it's designed to manipulate dopamine levels), but disconnecting can make you feel socially isolated.
- We seem to have a lot less trust in institutions like the government, organized religion, and capitalism having access to information that previous generations didn't have - and because of this we have fewer places to find hope.
- It feels like people on both the left & right are increasingly behaving more like fascists and it's kind of terrifying. I always feel like I have to guard myself from "saying the wrong thing" and that makes me feel like I'm being less myself.
At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just stick to older models.
You could also argue that proprietary models gated by an API are better than anything you can run locally, and yeah maybe those will get worse with time.
They're not going to get any worse than what you can run locally though. If they do, open models will overtake them, and then we'd be in a better position overall.