Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

I always appreciate these kinds of candid analyses. I’ve become convinced that all the various things people refer to as “AI” are indeed very useful, but they don’t obviate the need for actual engineering. At this point it’s been many years since LLMs became broadly available and the benefits remain largely hypothetical and in the future but the harms are very much real and present today.

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Kira Howe is a software engineer writing about building with care in the age of AI.

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