“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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  • It’s not just any connection.

    They’re relying on an llm for all the structural components of the analysis. They haven’t done the thinking of how these parts come together and what would actually be convincing.

    This looks like a Claude code job where they sent the agent at the task and the agent cooks for a while to create something which would be convincing to people who don’t actually know better.

    Look I develop a lot of analyses. Llm as a coding assistant when you know what both right and wrong code looks like, they can be useful, if they don’t to overcook everything. They’ll help you build functions to build parts of things. But if you are relying on them to do the thinking, you are utterly fucked and there is no there there.

    And with regards to the vegan metaphor. Firstly, while I can understand it being annoying, I really don’t give a shit. This isn’t a personal choice thing, this is a “the very structure of society is being impacted by this” thing.

    I’m all for people wanting to do these kinds of analysis and it’s totally valid for some aspects of an llm to play in your work flow. But if we let just sloo like this through, we’re utterly fucked