Post by Lucie / minute

@mntmn Enjoyed the read very much: both the analysis and the beautiful language, thank you for sharing! Also, low key Mark Fisher vibes.

@vadimkotov thank you, the mark fisher reference really sent me down a rabbithole now, hard to believe but i didn't know him yet!

@mntmn there is the argument that LLMs provide access to people for whom computers are opaque machines. Using computers was like cryptic wizardry, but now they can get things done without relying on others (and their patience / judgment).

@nintegge i don't believe that this is true.

@mntmn which part of the argument?

@nintegge the access/opaque part. lets take macintosh or ipad for example (i'm an ex-apple user from like 10 years ago). these were designed to be easy and accessible computers, and successfully so. or if you mean application development, there is a long history of "easy" tools like hypercard, scala (on the amiga), excel, visual basic, access, filemaker. google docs. or remember people messing with myspace and tumblr. website builders and no-code tools. why are these suddenly no good?