I'm just so tired.

I'm setting myself free. Not of encountering them, but of giving a fuck.

I don't want to fight a battle. I don't want to have to choose a side or carry a standard. That happens enough in my life already.

Michigan is getting wildfire smoke from Canada, and we want to burn more coal on data centers and shitty avatars ripped off from/in the style of Hayao Miyazaki. If you haven't been persuaded yet, it won't happen. So I am going to stop trying.

I read a couple pieces that are provoking this reaction. One I liked, one I didn't. I thought about writing a line by line critique of the second one, but I realized: no one cares. I don't even care anymore. It is what it is, and the race has been run.

Even if it's the wrong thing (and it is), LLMs are here to stay. They're half-decent at some programming tasks in some contexts (I have actually found it helpful on occasion). They also can cause skills atrophy and eliminate divergent thinking. They are not a neutral technology. But I can see the writing on the wall.

So, I'm done. I'm done having an opinion, fighting the fight, whatever. I'm just going to get my job done, use as few LLMs as I can practically manage, and go back to what I actually care about: taking real photos made by me, reading good books written by humans, and feeling the sun on my face and pretending that's not the heat of a BBQing planet.