• TuffNutzes@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The LLM worship has to stop.

    It’s like saying a hammer can build a house. No, it can’t.

    It’s useful to pound in nails and automate a lot of repetitive and boring tasks but it’s not going to build the house for you - architect it, plan it, validate it.

    It’s similar to the whole 3D printing hype. You can 3D print a house! No you can’t.

    You can 3D print a wall, maybe a window.

    Then have a skilled Craftsman put it all together for you, ensure fit and finish and essentially build the final product.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah I’ve seen that before and it’s basically what I’m talking about. Again, that’s not “printing a 3D house” as hype would lead one to believe. Is it extruding cement to build the walls around very carefully placed framing and heavily managed and coordinated by people and finished with plumbing, electrical, etc.

        It’s cool that they can bring this huge piece of equipment to extrude cement to form some kind of wall. It’s a neat proof of concept. I personally wouldn’t want to live in a house that looked anything like or was constructed that way. Would you?

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          11 hours ago

          I mean, “to 3d print a wall” is a massive, bordering on disingenuous, understatement of what’s happening there. They’re replacing all of the construction work of framing and finishing all of the walls of the house, interior and exterior, plus attaching them and insulating them, with a single step.

          My point is if you want to make a good argument against LLMs, your metaphor should not have such an easy argument against it at the ready.

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            4 hours ago

            Did you see another video about this? The one linked only showed the walls and still showed them doing interior framing. Nothing about windows, electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc.

            What they showed could speed up construction but there are tons of other steps involved.

            I do wonder how sturdy it is since it doesn’t look like rebar or anything else is added.

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              I’m not an expert on it, I’ve only watched a few videos on it, but from what I’ve seen they add structural elements between the layers at certain points which act like rebar.

              There’s no framing of the walls, but they do set up scaffolds to support overhangs (because you can’t print onto nothing)