How this space came to be
Somehow inspiration struck one day and I wanted to make a site. Hand crafted. No AI whispering (or shouting or be overly cheery) suggestions. No IDE. Just me. And neovim. And HTML and CSS.
how is this going to look?
Not sure yet, but I like the old-skool left-bar, content, right-bar layout that ang uses. So it probably is going to be something like that.
My love-hate relationship with AI
Ok, I'm not a writer myself. So just some random thoughts here. Maybe formulated badly, not sure.
As a tool LLMs are very valuable. A trained model running locally is a great resource! It can give direction or inspiration when you need it. Yet those models are inherrently smaller than what the big providers can let you use. '8b' (giga parameters) is the max for my machine. Freely available models are 70b or more!
Modern AI, specifically large language and visual models, are created and gate-kept by a few very big companies. Only they can afford the enormous effort to create the models. And they logically paywall access to the best models; which is their good right, but that is not what I like for the world...
Am I afraid for my job? No. Really. No. Machines can only become as good as the training material. Even though it may seem otherwise, garbage in is garbage out. We use LLMs as tool, whether writers, thinkers or software creators. It may in many cases make use faster. In some cases they only distract... We'll see what comes of it.
Who I support on Patreon
- Coffeezilla
- Elise Freshwater-Blizzard
- Freya Holmér
- Mary Spender
- Nerdforge
- Physics girl
- RinoaPoison
- SciShow
- Veronica Explains