What Armin Ronacher thinks about optimism
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Armin Ronacher has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldConnecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.
No longer holdsWhile all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.
SaidWhile all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.