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increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

I think a lot of people who are well-intentioned LLM boosters who have been able to fairly reliably find well-paid work in tech really do struggle with putting themselves in the shoes of people working in other sectors that have been feeling precarious for a long time and now feel WAY more so

yes, you can reasonably argue that People Should Adapt and all, but the likely runway for how one does that while retaining a non-abusive job that pays a living wage is arguably more coherent for people in tech who make software for a living than for many others who are not

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

I think many critics are also immensely frustrated by how the very real shortcomings of LLMs (shoddy research, misdiagnosis, plagiarism, etc.) are brushed aside because people value the cheap & shiny object over real expertise and accountability