The rise ofWhatever

There are people who use these, apparently. And it just feels so... depressing. There are people I once respected who, apparently, don’t actually enjoy doing the thing . They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different... See more

And speaking of things that work even more less good, the technology... sucks? It fundamentally doesn’t do the thing that its investors and diehard fans say it does. It just strings together text that is statistically plausible. And every new alleged advancement comes with some invested airhead billionaire boasting about how the computer is as smar... See more

But we didn’t really get that. We got, I guess, sparkling autocomplete — a fancy chatbot that can string words together in the most inoffensive people-pleasing customer-service voice you’ve ever heard.

The result is something I adamantly do not want to interact with. I do not want to be exposed to LLM output at any time. It’s noise , and I feel like... See more