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This response is entirely tribalist and ignores the differences between LLMs and ‘blockchain’ as actual technologies. To be blunt, I find it hard to professionally respect anyone that buys into these culture wars to the point where it completely overtakes their ability to objectively evaluate technologies. This isn’t me saying that anyone that has written off LLMs is an idiot. But to equate these two technologies in this context makes absolutely no sense to me just from a logical perspective. I.e. not involving a value judgment toward either blockchain or LLMs. The only reason you’re invoking blockchain here is because the blockchain and LLM fads are often compared / equated in these conversations. Nobody has suggested that blockchain technology be used to assist with the development of software in the way that LLMs are. It simply doesn’t make sense. These are two entirely separate technologies setting out to solve two entirely orthogonal problems. The argument is completely nonsensical.

[wizzwizz4]

(A less snarky reply:) LLMs and blockchains are both special-purpose tools that are almost completely useless for their best-known applications (virtual-assistants and cryptocurrency, respectively). The social behaviour surrounding them is way more relevant than the actual technologies, and I don't think it's tribalistic to acknowledge that.

People tried to use both as databases, put both in cars, invest in both. The vast majority of claims people make about them are just not evidenced, yet their hypist-adherents are so confident that they're willing to show you evidence that contradicts their claims, and call it "proof".

Yes, the actual technologies are very different. But nobody is actually paying attention to the technologies (an ignorance that my other comment snarkily accuses you of displaying here – I probably should've been kinder).

[wizzwizz4]

> Nobody has suggested that blockchain technology be used to assist with the development of software in the way that LLMs are. It simply doesn’t make sense.

Linus Torvalds is a strong advocate. He even wrote a blockchain-based source code management system, which he dubbed “the information manager from hell”[0], spending over three months on it (six months, by his own account) before handing it over to others to maintain.

People complain that this “information manager” system is hard to understand, but it's actively used (alongside email) for coordinating the Linux kernel project. Some say it's crucial to Linux's continued success, or even that it's more important than Linux.

[0]: see commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290