LLMs erode trust in software, Kyle Kingsbury warns
Original title: Quoting Kyle Kingsbury
Engineers may suspect any new project due to faked signals of maturity.
Simon Willison quotes Kyle Kingsbury on how LLMs reduce trust in documentation and software. Maintainers must ensure correct software and demonstrate its quality to users. The signals used for mature systems are now easier to counterfeit.
- LLMs counterfeit signals of mature systems
- Trust in documentation and software erodes
- Engineers may suspect any new project
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- ai-misuse
- Organizations
- Simon WillisonKyle Kingsbury
- AI models
- LLMs
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More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to rely on as markers of a mature system are now easier to counterfeit. [...]
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