[auggierose]

But it is not a social interaction. An LLM is a machine.

I think there is also a big difference between being forced to use an LLM in a certain way, and being able to completely design your interaction with the LLM yourself. The former I imagine can be indeed tedious and frustrating, the latter is just miraculous.

[layer8]

No one is forcing me to use LLMs, so that’s not it. The interaction is social in the sense that it is natural-language based and nondeterministic, and that LLMs exhibit a certain “character”. They have been trained to mimic certain kinds of human social interaction.

[auggierose]

It probably also depends on what your favourite weapon of choice is. Mine was always written language, and code is just a particular manifestation of it.