Fuck AI

The potential usefulness of AI seems to depend largely on the type of work you're doing. And in my limited experience, it seems like it's best at "useless" work.

For example, writing cover letters is time consuming and exhausting when you're submitting hundreds of applications. LLMs are ideal for this, especially because the letters often aren't being read by humans anyways--either being summarized by LLMs, or ignored entirely. Similar things (such as writing grant applications, or documentation that no one will ever read) have a similar dynamic.

If you're not engaged in this sort of useless work, LLMs probably aren't going to represent time savings. And given their downsides (environmental impact, further concentration of wealth, making you stupid, etc) they're a net loss for society. Maybe instead of using LLMs, we should eliminate useless work?