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this is the kind of statement that - did people like this care to actually have a normal conversation with people who they describe as having psychosis - would be downgraded at the very least to “we don’t know” but that would require allowing your priors to be. challenged

WADR i've never seen you challenge your priors on this issue.

my priors got challenged in january of this year. i was firmly on the side that most of this website was on in december of 2025.

there are a lot of people that are both my friends and people i know online, and i have a posting history to show, that i was insanely skeptical and fed up with AI hype in 2025 and before. i used to look down on people who were using it in software.

i had to really sit down and analyze things in 2026.

I think there's a genuine disconnect between programmers and creative career folks on this. I have genuinely tried to incorporate this shit in my process and it is basically useless for me. Pointing that out does not mean I haven't challenged my priors.

i cant pretend to know what exactly you'd need these tools to be able to do for it to be useful in your life, but i fully believe its possible they are not that useful for you at present! i dont think that contradicts the claim that we dont understand the reasoning and motivations of agents

In my field, what I see is that the time needed to review the output for accuracy has only gone up (it was 4x the time needed to review human output 18 months ago and 10x six months ago) and the number of people getting fined and disciplined for using it without reviewing the output has too.

We do use LLM tools here and there, but not for the core skill work we get paid for. It’s just too time consuming. How much time am I obligated to put into alpha-testing this technology every week before you’ll trust me when I say it’s just not a thing?

Also, just saying, but for the things I’ve actually used it for, chatGPT is actually *less* capable than it was 18 months ago.

Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

"I don't know" is a valid stance to take I would hope that you or anyone who recognizes that their views are outdated would have the humility not to mob or belittle people who are paying attention, no matter how surprising their beliefs may seem from a [stale] perspective

the people who are shouting and mobbing based on beliefs that have not been updated since 2023 would do a lot better to take the "I don't know" stance instead.

Then you might be in trouble because these things seem to be changing at speed whether you have the time to follow them or not.

Last week an AI agent got something majorly wrong in an area I'm an expert in. I just don't buy the hype.

You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

This is really a rude way to engage with someone who is participating in the thread perfectly respectfully even if in disagreement with OP!

What is it you do all day, exactly?

you think I do my podcast full time?

This is as succinct a description of “the Singularity” as I’ve ever seen.

You can’t type a two sentence prompt every couple of months?

why should she? this industry has well over a trillion dollars invested into it, but they can’t pay a PR firm to disseminate the practical uses for LLMs and “agents”? how is an LLM going to make me happy? bring contentment? make housing affordable? make my job less stressful?