* Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[email protected]> [2026-03-11 09:49]: > Once people start being 'helped', they get used to 'getting > something done in 10 mins with minimum/no effort'
Oh absolutely, by that logic we should all ditch Org-mode and go back to chiseling our to-do lists on stone tablets, since apparently wanting the computer to do the boring work in seconds instead of us spending hours on it is a crime against humanity. > and being recognised for the product (and not the production line) > and go more and more the LLM path without learning anything. Ah yes, the noble art of spending hours debugging a config file so I can feel smart, instead of letting a machine do it in seconds and moving on with my life. That is the reason for new technologies!!!! ------------------------------------------- - to have things done efficiently with minimum or no effort Right? Exactly! That's literally the entire point of technology. We invented tractors so we wouldn't have to plow fields by hand. We invented washing machines so we wouldn't have to scrub clothes on rocks. And now we have LLMs so we don't have to wrestle with yet another Org-mode corner case at 2 AM. I appreciate my great grandmother washing clothes for my Ukrainian fugitive father in Austro-Hungarian kindgom all by her hands and efforts, but using washing machines is my choice, as I am living in 21st century. I appreciate my great-grandmother washing clothes for my Ukrainian fugitive father in the Austro-Hungarian kingdom with her own hands and effort, but using a washing machine is my choice, since I live in the 21st century. > Like many other things, the promise of LLMs is to get more done with > less effort and they appeal to layers in your brain that are so deep > you even don't know they exist. Oh no, my deep brain layers are being *appealed to*? Quick, someone hand me a typewriter and a slide rule before I accidentally enjoy being efficient. -- Jean Louis
