Youtube : https://youtu.be/a6sYYrLTOjQ Indivious : https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=a6sYYrLTOjQ
wikipedia for jevons paradox : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
as much as i like hank, this take honestly feels like hes had a sip of coolaid. chatbots dont produce much value at all, so i have a hard time seeing how exactly them producing shit more efficiently is going to matter.
Javons Paradox can actually be seem as an argument against a specific type of argument for them.
The assumption goes something like "these things are usually expensive in terms of both money and resources to run, so making them more efficient should reduce both and make them ‘cleaner’ and cheaper.
OR
“I only use them a little.”
Javons Paradox is therefore an argument that says something like the more efficient they become then the more they will be used, disproving the point that people won’t or don’t use them much and that they are somehow cleaner now, since it completely removes the advantages of them being cheaper in resource use as using them more means resources are still used at the same level, if not more than, as before.
As well as that people just start using them more.
i understand the paradox. it does rely on the central conceit that the thing itself has some value independent of the cost. i dont believe ai chatbots have value in the production of code. they produce hot garbage, and using them ends up taking more human time than just writing the software would have. right now people still think they have some value, and it makes me sad to see hank buying into that, even slightly.
I’ve been finding some value in the hot garbage code they’ve been producing. Specifically, they seem to have the ability to write boilerplate code with great speed and process vague ideas into actionable scripts, which I know I struggle with.
Ah, good point. Thank you!
