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I have a few years of experience in backend development, and I have realized that LLMs are incredible productivity boosts for generating code only if you know t
by aster0id 3y ago
I have a few years of experience in backend development, and I have realized that LLMs are incredible productivity boosts for generating code only if you know the underlying libraries/frameworks/languages very well. You can then prompt it with very specific instructions and it can go do that. Helps with the typing, but that's pretty much all. I still have to know everything and it can definitely not do everything on autopilot. I would be surprised if this product can do any real work.
- smith7018 3y agoI dunno, I have an extreme command of my platform's framework and I'd guess that 85% of the time I've asked GPT-4 for help has been a waste of time. I think it's been most helpful in regards to writing regexes but beyond that, it hallucinates correct-sounding methods all the time which leads to _a_lot_ of wasted debug time before eventually getting to the right answer by Googling what it meant or by manually rewriting large portions of what it meant to do. It's funny how a year ago I was really excited for how AI can help my everyday coding while fearful that it would replace me. Now I'm not really sure either will happen in the short term.