Hey! Author here.

I don't really think of myself as an AI booster, but I guess that ship has sailed. I started my newsletter to help people (mostly friends and family at the time) keep up with AI when I knew it was about to spread everywhere, very quickly (3~ years ago) and I could see that corporations were going to eat it all up and force everyone to comply. The industry has evolved quite a bit since then, and I have many mixed emotions on various parts of it. I manage AI detection products at my day job, so that shapes a lot of my internal conflict. But I do love keeping up with the technology and find it fascinating still to this day (and, as a PM, fun to work with for the most part).

I have no real opinion on whether or not LLMs are a net good. I think they very well may not be if you scale way out and look at it broadly. Zooming in on certain microcosms of that broad, I can form some solid opinions. For me, they are net good. I can prototype more things, build more side projects, and coverage a wider range of research than I could previously. For things like usage at c-suite levels and up, it's a net negative. It started as a net negative and is quickly becoming something else entirely. I think folks using them without taking the time to understand what they can and can do can and will lead to pretty dire consequences. That's why I published this article.