Which he can afford because of ChatGPT. Checkmate.

Maybe Elmo could, now that they broke up. He could argue that TikTok existing makes Twitter’s videos less popular.

Note: this is only the best argument they have right now because politicians will never be persuaded by people bringing up Palantir’s war crimes and will openly defy any constituents who are persuaded.

If you use LLMs like they should be, i.e. as autocomplete, they’re helpful. Classic autocomplete can’t see me type “import” and correctly guess that I want to import a file that I just created, but Copilot can. You shouldn’t expect it to understand code, but it can type more quickly than you and plug the right things in more often than not.

Copilot does a good job of typing out things like imports that should really be loops but can’t be. Sure, I could easily write a Python or Bash script to do it, but that would take 5-10 minutes and just pressing Tab 20 times takes a lot less. I just have to read each line to make sure it didn’t hallucinate any files that I don’t actually have.

Or were using a product with management that wanted in. A handful of video games were negatively impacted, so their players were at least inconvenienced.

Wrong documentation is still a pretty big problem, even without the gaslighting. Incomplete documentation is better than none; incorrect documentation is not.

I guarantee it’s already happened. The question is when a company large enough that you can’t avoid it follows suit.

And that’s what happens when you spend a trillion dollars on an autocomplete: amazing at making things look like whatever it’s imitating, but with zero understanding of why the original looked that way.