I consider myself “Anti-AI” but “Pro-LLM”, I’m going to try to explain a bit on what the difference is why i have this position, and you can all feel free to argue or hate on me in the replies:

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Before LLMs i did little more then small simple bash and python scripting and the most basic of HTML or anything else. My “skills” such as they are mainly focus on higher level system and network administration tasks. I don’t consider myself a developer or a coder, but i know enough to make changes under the hood, but not so much that I’d be creating anything of much use outside of my own very specific environment. My usecase for coding in general is basically just automation and/or filtering. I’m either trying to make something i do regularly easier to do in less steps, or I’m trying to parse a large amount of data (ie logs) to find the specific info i need.

This being the main way i use any sort of “code” LLMs end up being a great deal useful for me becasue to start with, you don’t even need very large ones for them to be useful. Instead of having to type out some long complicated command with specific syntax and ordering, I can just say “deploy a copy of project_a to server_b” and it writes the script for me, which i then look over, see it does pretty much exactly what i want and is most likely way better then whatever crude thing i’d come up with. Sometimes I even end up learning a bit because i see how the LLM does things, which it “chooses” because those things are the most likely things to work according to its training.

That all being said, I find LLMs useful and i see no reason not to use them any more then i see a reason to not use swipe typing or auto-complete or spelling/grammar checking. But I don’t consider these things “AI”. What I consider to be AI is the corporate run slop machine that stole all of humanity’s creative works and want to sell it all back to us by the token… I hope those companies fail spectacularly and whatever useful research they did becomes public domain which is exactly what it should have all been in the first place.