it’s funny how many AI skeptics unconsciously anthropomorphize LLMs in their critiques, like their anger is directed more at a naive zoomer intern who can’t infer the context of your ask, rather than a computer program that can work small miracles if you have the patience to learn how it thinks.

no one gets mad at the limitations of their microwave, or even a stats package, the way they get worked up over a machine in a box that four years ago couldn’t do addition and today wins math olympiads. in that anger is an implicit assumption: that it should know better — and of something on the other end that’s far more than a machine, if not quite yet a soul