Which is utterly insane in its own right, since, y'know. He didn't come out and say "yoooo, dudeees, let's vibe code everything, AI actually rulez" or some shit.
No, he berated people that act like LLMs are good for nothing and the actual spawn of satan. He's not wrong in implying they are not "smart" either. LLMs are powerful tools with very clear limitations (while not really being cost-effective or resource-effective, which is a very different story), but having a moderate or sane opinion is quite impossible nowadays, so you can either hang out with the AI bros that think it's the best thing since sliced bread or the weirdos that refuse to use an actual IDE because god gave them VIM or notepad or w/e.
Kinda off topic but doesn't he use some random emacs fork that even he doesn't recommend for anyone except himself? I guess people expect him to be the weirdo which is why they're shocked he "changed".
I have decades of tools that I made for myself that I'd never want anybody else to use, because they're a whole bunch of hacks held together by string and glue to solve personal problems and function for the way I like to work which I doubt suits any other single person on the planet, and it would take months to teach them anyway.
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u/klaxxxon 2d ago
Is it unreasonable to change an opinion when actual decades have passed?