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by PhysicalNomad 1193 days ago
All these apocalyptic articles will be a good laugh in a few years when the tech settles. It's a sentence completion engine. Incredibly useful, with massive potential, and maybe the best tool we've created since the computer. But still just a sentence completion engine.
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Computers are just adding machines in the same way right? A nuke is the same as a handgun, just 10,000x more powerful right?

This seems to be a hallmark of SWE thinking: fixation on abstractions that reduce objects of the same class to be the same thing, when in the real world they are dramatically different.