Anti-LLM Sentiment Considered Harmful

hey! i noticed this thread is getting long and i have some fun thoughts that i think land in the middle. For those who dont know me, i did a huge amount of contribs 2006- 2020ish in haskell space my current stance on llms is: 1. they are not a substitute for domain literacy or competency. 2. they actually perform better in a task that uses a strongly static typed programming language and type checking as one success gate for the task. vs weakly/unsound / dynamic etc 3. they are a wonderful assistive device for precisely the steps in building cool stuff where ive often frozen/couldn’t figure out the best way to realize an idea i have in my head. namely the model half asses it then i get mad and fix it. 4. the tools for using these models currently suck! and no one has realized that the runner /harness around the model can have an incredible impact on quality of work and agentic reliability broadly 5. ive been working on a whole bunch of tools to hoist using these models into being much more reliable, and ive been using haskell to do quite a bit of this. there is so much low hanging fruit to build better tools! im probably gonna open source some pieces, like i have a pretty nice little kit for connecting to almost every single model provider! anyways: no matter what its def the case that things are changing, so i think the best way to move forward is do cool shit and incentivize building tools that make it easier for collab to be as nice as we historically recall theres a lot of other problems in the world that are trickier to address, my focus has been figuring out how to make these tools the most reliable assistive device possible. ive been dog fooding a bunch of stuff around llms using stuff on my cartazio gh org repos, and im hoping to standup a pleasant very fancy 2nd gen llm harness etc as saas this summer. so im biased, but honestly the more reliable they get in my setups the easier it is fir me to build and share all sorts of cool stuff!