Paul Schoe: “… Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs …” – Mastodon
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/08
The very to the point post [Wayback/Archive] Paul Schoe: “@dentangle You are totally c…” – Mastodon
You are totally correct.
Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs.
They don’t want ‘intelligence’ to do things for them. They want to implement a set of rules that they themselves define, to be done automatically instead of having to do it themselves. That is automation.
was a response to a more precise post [Wayback/Archive] Brett Sheffield (he/him): “I see people recommending LLMs repetitive tasks …” – chaos.social
I see people recommending LLMs for repetitive tasks. That sounds more like a candidate for automation and improved tooling. Anything deterministic can be automated. Anything that can’t be automated needs human verification, and would be a poor candidate for the stochastic parrot anyway.
There’s no complex task I can think of where I care so little about the output that I’d hand it over to a slop machine, even if all the other issues could be addressed.
--jeroen
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