[encyclopedism]

That's such a naive take, the joy of helping the customer ha! That's a situation your employer sets up for you!

Try reading your sentence above and swapping in 'EMPLOYEE':

'These LLMs are like EMPLOYEES. The customer cannot tell the difference between EMPLOYEE painted and LLM generated at even a short distance. '

[bob1029]

> That's a situation your employer sets up for you!

Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers?

Start your own consultancy and take 100% of the pie. The term "employee" evaporates in this context, as does an entire universe of lazy, negative tropes about work ethic, etc.

[encyclopedism]

> Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers?

I didn't. However most people on here and around the world are employed I am merely pointing out that your employer dictates so much of what you do.

> Start your own consultancy.

Great, but realise then that you are talking about creating a business. Which is a whole other field altogether. You can have a business in software, or in legal, or mining etc. But that's a different conversation. It's about business and not about software or LLM's.

[baq]

The customer can absolutely tell the difference between a Caterpillar digger and a dude in it vs 100 dudes with shovels

[encyclopedism]

Attempting to illustrate why your analogy is flawed and explain myself a little better I would add that there are quantitive things and qualitative things. If the object was to remove some volume of earth (quantitive) then whether it is moved by a Caterpillar or by 100 men with shovels does not matter.

If you're 'no longer looking at the code' or 'looping everything' then you are implicitly moving towards a more quantitive outlook of software development. How it does so becomes less and less meaningful and why would you even care?

[baq]

I'm saying I'd rather have a dude in a digger than a hundred folks who need to be supplied, some of them drunk, some of them thieves, some of them just plain bad at digging and only making a mess of the dig site.

[claudiulodro]

In this metaphor, your dude in a digger could also be drunk or a thief or bad at his job, and that'd be a bigger problem vs. a few people from a 100 person hand crew.

[baq]

This is true, but my priors say it’s much less likely to get a thief or a drunk in a digger than in a group of a hundred folks with shovels.