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I don't think I'm exaggerating when I'm saying that me and my wife feel like the last survivors in a zombie apocalypse, seeing all close friends and family use this crap more and more. Even a "I just asked ChatGPT what the best GPU for this game is" feels like that hidden zombie bitemark trope

It's disheartening to even consider the way people are phrasing its use: "Chat *told* me", "I *asked* Claude". Have people used this sort of anthropomorphizing language for, say, wikipedia? Even the "text chat" format of these things has so many annoying layers to them

For me - as someone who is a self-doubt machine - there are certain tasks that I would love to delegate, much like how one might work with a collaborator. I also don’t hate the idea of better autocomplete*. But any thought of ever doing so dies with the "if" - the ethical implications are too big.

(*not whole functions but like single line stuff. Simple boilerplate syntax, not actual logic. It should never make a design or engineering decision, only let me insert the thing I was already going to write)

And that kind of auto complete was already possible and much cheaper before LLMs. Microsoft had a pretty decent one with intellicode until they made it LLM and server-based which ruined anything good about it