Exactly. This is the holy grail of advertising. Seamless and undisclosed. That, and replacing vast amounts of labor, are some of the only uses that justify the level of investment in LLM AI.

It sounds like the Walmart approach has two fewer middlemen, which sounds nice to me. Walmart's interests are aligned with ours here. Whatever profit they have to give up as payment overhead will be passed along to us as higher prices.

I was asked for a web app for two business users to be able to create arbitrary/flexible data driven rule sets through a custom UI. I quickly gave them a "temporary" Django admin app where they could upload Excel spreadsheets representing the actual data use cases they had. They were ecstatic and never needed the fuller system they specced.

Geopolitics aside, tech dependence in general has tipped from net helping us to hurting us. AI dependence is going to make social media dependence look like nothing.

I have never seen some person or organization that couldn't ditch LLMs in an instant.

Are you talking about some other kind of AI?

> I have never seen some person or organization that couldn't ditch LLMs in an instant.

I read parent as "This is where they want to be", not "this is were they are right now".

Big Tech is trying to push forward a model in which technicians use LLMs without understanding them. That's where all these "you don't need to learn coding" PRs converge towards.

That would be a nightmare scenario for almost everybody involved, but it's exactly the one in which the Trump admin believes and invests, and it is a possible future.

But you can have a surprisingly large amount of data before the inefficiency you're talking about becomes untenable.

I was gifted $250 pro airpods that stopped working after a few months, and then the replacements they gave me stopped working again after a few months. I went back to using the $10 wired earbuds that have always worked fine.

Sounds like you're using an LLM as your calendar.

The joke was meant to be that next year is actually 2027. Which means Elmo's promised FSD is almost a decade late

I know, I was adding on the joke that LLMs can't get the year right.

Would I keep showing up to the job I had in 2015? Yes, not forever, but at least for a time. It was enjoyable socially and practicing the craft is enjoyable. At jobs like that, the ability to enjoy the craft outweighed the downsides of having to manage a job/career.

Would I keep showing up to the most recent job I had? Or seek out a job in what the market has become, or take a job in what the field has become? And what has become of the craft? Absolutely not. I retired with much less money than $10m, my living expenses are low.

If you're deciding whether to dress and prepare for rain you're more curious about whether it will rain or not than the amount.