This is tangential to the discussion at hand, but a point I haven’t seen much in these conversations is the odd impedance mismatch between knowing you’re interacting with a tool but being asked to interact with it like a human.

I personally am much less patient and forgiving of tools that I use regularly than I am of my colleagues (as I would hope is true for most of us), but it would make me uncomfortable to “treat” an LLM with the same expectations of consistency and “get out of my way” as I treat vim or emacs, even though I intellectually know it is also a non-thinking machine.

I wonder about the psychological effects on myself and others long term of this kind of language-based machine interaction: will it affect our interactions with other people, or influence how we think about and what we expect from our tools?

Would be curious if your experience gives you any insight into this.