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1. rylando · 1790899161 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder how Tolkien would’ve thought about the use of LotR names being used by all these AI and tech companies.. especially since they all seem to use the names of things that were corrupted by darkness.

   1. dmazin · 1790917694 · focus · HN ↗

      Putting the makers of an OSS harness in the same moral group of Palantir and Anduril is laughably silly.

      1. TZubiri · 1790918085 · focus · HN ↗

         LLMs in general are a corruption in a literal moral-neutral way. You stop worrying about whether something is correct or not, or how it works and just give in to the vibes, doesn't matter what goes in the backend or in some data center or mine far away, everything reduced to producing digital nuggets.

         1. newswasboring · 1790935109 · focus · HN ↗

            Not all LLM use is vibe coding.

            1. TZubiri · 1790983294 · focus · HN ↗

               yeah, I didn't refer to vibe coding specifically, all that applies to generic llm usage

               1. newswasboring · 1791028600 · focus · HN ↗

                  > You stop worrying about whether something is correct or not, or how it works and just give in to the vibes,

                  Are you sure about that? All llm use is like this?

                  1. TZubiri · 1791056311 · focus · HN ↗

                     Yes, for an encyclopedic use-case for example, asking a fact question, when compared to Google or Wikipedia, using an LLM is less deterministic and provides less auditable metadata, it's just the answer and trust me bro.

                     1. newswasboring · 1791105040 · focus · HN ↗

                        Then don't use it like that. Ask for summaries and links. That's what I do. You don't have to use llms like magic.

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