I think this sums up my thoughts on the LLM writing "style" pretty well:
> If a student submitted a piece of writing to me that sounded like this—and I was sure they wrote it themselves—I wouldn’t know where to start. I guess I would tell them to stop writing for a while and go read some old novels, or work a crummy job, or backpack around the other side of the world. But that would be bad advice, because I know people who have done all of those things in the hopes of becoming a more interesting person, and it hasn’t worked. So I might ask them instead: “Have you ever considered a career in consulting?”
Code doesn't need subjective intelligence. I think LLMs, as much as I dislike offloading thinking to them, are likely to become a large part of software engineering. I'm hoping that it'll never nail the subjective experience - I read to explore others thoughts, however ungrammatical, broken, or convoluted their prose is. Give me that over a bowl of bland and tasteless slop any day
> If a student submitted a piece of writing to me that sounded like this—and I was sure they wrote it themselves—I wouldn’t know where to start. I guess I would tell them to stop writing for a while and go read some old novels, or work a crummy job, or backpack around the other side of the world. But that would be bad advice, because I know people who have done all of those things in the hopes of becoming a more interesting person, and it hasn’t worked. So I might ask them instead: “Have you ever considered a career in consulting?”
Code doesn't need subjective intelligence. I think LLMs, as much as I dislike offloading thinking to them, are likely to become a large part of software engineering. I'm hoping that it'll never nail the subjective experience - I read to explore others thoughts, however ungrammatical, broken, or convoluted their prose is. Give me that over a bowl of bland and tasteless slop any day