as unknown as any

TS dev here. Yep.

There’s worse, but not by much. Looking at you, PHP

Don’t agree. Our cats were always welcoming us affectionately.

You’re mixing up the motivations of the opposing sides. For the enemy, incapacitating someone might be in some ways preferable, but for an injured soldier’s own side, rescuing them would always be preferable to abandoning them.

That soundtrack was cool too

I think you are critically (I’m not saying intentionally) missing the middle ground in your assessment. Large generative models are great for repetitive, homogenous tasks like surveillance, speech recognition, assembly line quality control, etc.

If I try to look at it from your point of view, regarding creative tasks like developing new software, you have one side claiming that you can make hammers out of chocolate and throw away all your proper ones, and another that’s portrayed as being unreasonable for opposing that.