Kovid, I want to apologize.
I certainly overreacted.
I respect you and thank you very much for the tremendous work you do with Calibre, and it's this same respect that makes me fear and overreact that you could fall too easily into the trap of LLM solutions.
I am unaware of your complete and comprehensive opinion on such technology, which prevents a genuine, reasoned argued debate, and encourages speculation and emotion.
To summarize my opinion:
AI chatbot is the current great magic idea who promises to solve all our problems, and who has consistently and successfully demonstrated that it is the worst possible solution.
And all the current big-tech landscape is a example of that.
Certain things are maybe possible if you have sufficiently advanced technical knowledge and, above all, caution.
Especialy that AIgen/LLM are not longuer just technological solutions that could be considered among others, but it now deeply associated with negative connotations by a large part of the general public, even negative political connotations.
So choose AIgen/LLM is a very, very delicate choice.
That's mainly what I want to say: Be careful, Kovid.
Thanks.