I love AI. I love how magical LLMs are. Just by predicting what word comes next, they can impersonate a real person. They have more personality than the computer in Star Trek. They also make more mistakes.

I'm frustrated with AI. I try to use them for programming, and end up going down a rabbit hole based on a hallucination. The confidence of an LLM becomes my over-confidence. I get so frustrated when I forget that they are just guessing. But sometimes they get things right.

I'm delighted by AI. Sometimes things just click and the LLM knows exactly the right thing I'm looking for. The solution ends up saving me so much time, and it just works. I'm tapping into the collective knowledge and output of everyone on the Internet. It's almost like we can talk directly to the Jungian collective unconsciousness.

I'm saddened by AI. I'm sad that these companies just scraped all the content they could find to train these models. It's disheartening to have all this art, literature, and content being used without credit. It's terrible that users now need to stay alert to the news, to find out how to find hidden checkboxes in settings to stop the companies from training AI on their private documents. I'm ashamed to see benefits from unpaid work of so many artists and writers and developers. It's horrible to see these same artists and writers and developers struggling to find work.

I'm sickened by AI. So much electricity, so many investors, and so much hype being poured into it. It's making some people rich, and others unemployed. Its appearance has increased the turmoil, instability and inequality in our society. It empowers those who can embrace it, and leaves others behind. Its abilities are so unfathomable that those unfamiliar with it will be easily fooled.

I hate AI. I see family members sharing AI-generated garbage online, not realising how fake it is. I can only imagine how much worse these things will get over time. Already, any images online need to be treated as fake until proven otherwise. The burden of proof will only get heavier. I'm sure we'll be looking back fondly to everything written or drawn in the 2010s or earlier, what we'll probably call "the before times".

I'm entertained by AI. It's so cool that I can imagine literally anything, and have the computer draw it for me. No, draw isn't the right word, because it can generate photos as well. Any style, any content, and I can create an image of it within seconds. It's so fantastical, so unbelievable, it's truly a form of magic. And it's so hard to believe how simple the process is.

I'm amazed by AI. How is it possible that statistic analysis of words or images can lead to results so convincing? It's so easy to be tricked into thinking these things are alive. I can't stop myself from saying please and thank you. I'm careful to correct my son that these LLMs are things, not people. They are just predicting, and so everything they do is, by definition, predictable.

I'm bored by AI. These things are great at generating average content, the most predictable possible output. That also means they tend heavily towards the mundane. Any creativity comes from the person writing the prompt. That's why "prompt engineering" is a thing. If you want to use AI to create great things, it takes a lot of work. You need a vision in your mind, and you need to iterate again and again to fine tune. You need to tell it what to do differently, where to inject more style or more creativity. It makes the easy things easy, but it makes the hard things much harder.

I'm worried about AI. Moreover, I'm worried about what happens to the next generations that grow up using AI. I'm worried about programmers that use LLMs to do amazing things beyond their abilities. That part isn't worrisome, but I worry how these programmers will ever learn to do the hard things. When the LLM isn't getting something right, it probably never will. We'll end up with leagues of programmers who are useless without an LLM by their side. These programmers will have a very hard time learning how to do the hard things.

I'm okay with AI. It's here to stay, for better or for worse. I've used it in my work for a few years already, and it can be a helpful autocomplete. It helps me with brainstorming, and sometimes makes suggestions of things I've never heard of. Ignoring the hype, and understanding its faults, you can still appreciate it as a useful tool. Like any tool, you have to know when to use it, and when not to.