Because what is shared is overconfidence in the face of a system that has humble beginnings but many people trying to improve it. People have a natural bias against massive changes, and assume the status quo is fixed.

I’m open to all possibilities. There might be a near term blocker to improvement. There might be an impending architectural change that achieves AGI. Strong opinions for one or the other with no extremely robust proof are a mistake.

The cognitive dissonance of seemingly educated people defending the LLMs when it comes to writing code is my top mystery for the entirety of 2024.

Call me if you find a good reason. I still have not.

Because they don’t have an actual argument.