x0rcist, x0rcist@awful.systems

There is one narrow case in which I’ve found the compiler analogy useful: explaining my frustrations with LLM-assisted design/architecture doc generation. Here, it’s useful because handing someone a design document that was output by an LLM is a lot like handing someone a binary and asking them for a code review.

I’d much rather work with whatever disorganized soup of thoughts someone fed into the machine, because those at least contain intent, rather than a document that actively obscures what the designer wanted in a barrage of detail.

I wonder whether the slides look so much like shitposts because the image-gen AI has ingested so many from scraping the internet. Like “Goose value 71” overlaid on an image of a goose is an image I can truly only ever imagine having seen as a shitpost prior to GenAI.

The ensuing amalgamation of “someone who would do this” with the vat-body-somatic-mind would be the most wretched creature imaginable, I think.