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libraryofbabelyesterday at 10:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

Those three positions are all extreme viewpoints. There are certainly people who hold them, and they tend to be loud and confident and have an outsize presence in HN and other places online.

But a lot of us have a more nuanced take! It's perfectly possible to believe simultaneously that 1) LLMs are more than stochastic parrots 2) LLMs are useful for software development 3) LLMs have all sorts of limitations and risks (you can produce unmaintainable slop with them, and many people will, there are massive security issues, I can go on and on...) 4) We're not getting AGI or world-destroying super-intelligence anytime soon, if ever 5) We're in a bubble and it's going to pop and cause a big mess 6) This tech is still going to be transformative long term, on a similar level to the web and smartphones.

Don't let the noise from the extreme people who formed their opinions back when ChatGPT came out drown out serious discussion! A lot of us try and walk a middle course with this and have been and still are open to changing our minds.