OTOH, I've seen plenty of design documents I wish would have been written by an LLM instead. My take is it's the person driving the LMM that makes the difference. If they couldn't be bothered producing decent documents with an LMM, they probably couldn't care less without an LLM as well.
Agreed. LLMs are tools just like any other. If someone builds you a shitty shed we wouldn't blame the tools, and we also would not be satisfied if they blamed the tools on their shoddy work either.
I think a lot of the discourse just shows we're still in the early days for adoption and maturity of this tech. (Not to blame the discourse, I think it's a reflection of the state of the tools and industry.)
Eventually, likely at least a couple years from now, more people will have better technical literacy when it comes to LLMs. And it will become less and less acceptable to put out slop with them in most professional settings. I just think human disgust is too strong of an emotion to acclimate to the laziest of LLM outputs.
I mean I think it's already happening before our eyes. I've been pleasantly surprised by how many more people I see talking in much more detail about the unique qualities of LLM outputs. And slowly, but surely the discourse is becoming less about moral panic and more just about questioning their use. Which has to happen for us all to collectively (and individually) figure out where and what is the place for LLMs in our personal and professional lives.
