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Neither artificial, nor intelligent by Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast, accessibility specialist and conference speaker from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer.Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on Mastodon (hidde.blog)
Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools based on them (like ChatGPT) are all some in tech talk about today. I struggle with the optimism I see from businesses, the haphazard deployment of these systems and the seemingly ever-expanding boundaries of what we are prepared to call “artificially intelli...
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The hard bit of software engineering has always been “deeply understanding a problem well enough to implement a useful solution to it”.

The scary bit of people trying to AI away the programming part is that most rely on writing the software to understand the problem domain — remove that part and you truly do have YOLO driven development with badly thought out questions “generating” bad and kinda broken software.

—@endocrimes

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Early morning hot take: when you develop software, you should consider how it can be used for evil, and consider if the negative consequences outweigh the positive ones. If you’re a good person, you include externalized consequences in the equation.

In other words, don’t make something that will hurt other people, even if it benefits you.

—@liw