The most charitable way I can read those paragraphs is that he's vaguely alluding to a nebulous conspiracy by a cabal of elites, which evokes a specific ideology that cannot be discussed constructively.
Ed has repeatedly done the "why are people using LLMs?" bit but ignores what well-respected software engineers have actually said about them because he thinks they're AI boosters and they are just lying. At the least, it's an obvious blind spot to explain how the AI industry is what it is despite the numbers he reports arguing otherwise, and many of his industry trend predictions have been incorrect as a direct result.
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The most charitable way I can read those paragraphs is that he's vaguely alluding to a nebulous conspiracy by a cabal of elites, which evokes a specific ideology that cannot be discussed constructively.
Ed has repeatedly done the "why are people using LLMs?" bit but ignores what well-respected software engineers have actually said about them because he thinks they're AI boosters and they are just lying. At the least, it's an obvious blind spot to explain how the AI industry is what it is despite the numbers he reports arguing otherwise, and many of his industry trend predictions have been incorrect as a direct result.