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I haven't seen LLMs do anything more useful than generating a wedding speech in the style of H.P. Lovecraft and there are people out there earnestly predicting
by mvdtnz 3y ago
I haven't seen LLMs do anything more useful than generating a wedding speech in the style of H.P. Lovecraft and there are people out there earnestly predicting this technology will increase efficiency 10% across entire economies. I genuinely feel like I'm living in a different world to you all.
- rockemsockem 3y agoHave you used GPT4 as a drop in replacement for Google, especially while coding?
- manicennui 3y agoI don't have to constantly Google things while coding.
- rockemsockem 3y agoI didn't imply constant Googling. IDK about you but I frequently work with frameworks and tools I have not encountered before and I find GPT-4 to do a far better job of giving me quick and straightforward answers about how these tools work than Google. Not just one-off "how do I do X", or "explain this syntax", but also things like "how does framework X handle Y", etc. I even use it to figure out how to find settings that are buried in cluttered UIs.
- JMiao 3y agoEven nicer
- JMiao 3y agoNice
- objektif 3y agoIt can write code. I can assure you that. Still need a developer but it can make a developer incredibly more efficient much much more than 10%.
- mvdtnz 3y agoHe was saying that he expects to see a 10% increase in efficiency globally, not amongst programmers.
- manicennui 3y agoI have yet to see an example of Copilot do something that doesn't seem like basic autocomplete/snippets that editors and IDEs have been doing for decades or code so basic that it betrays the lack of competence by the user.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoThe auto complete is much more effective than what IDE has... Even if you type at 140wpm it is effective.
- rockemsockem 3y agoDo you not find the latency disruptive? I find that the auto complete results taking even a second and a half breaks my flow, so I disabled Copilot and I don't miss it
- mewpmewp2 3y agoThere are some UX concerns I wish could be improved, but I think I have been able to fit decently with the rhythm of it and know when it is efficient to use for me. I can't write multiple lines in a second. In some cases it will give me the exact 10 lines of code I wanted to write myself with few seconds. That is significant. It should be better at auto importing and status indication I think. Also it never makes typoes or rarely index+1 errors, things like that. It is much less mental fatigue compared to if I have to make sure I did those things correctly myself. I think the delay I kind of in my head use like a guessing game of what it will exactly give me or I will plan other things ahead. Because it is also always interesting to see how accurate my guess for what it will give me is. Guess it is kind of fun.
- rockemsockem 3y agoI find the Copilot completions to be slightly better than IDE auto complete, but the latency is too high for it to be useful IMO. It's to big a break in concentration to wait for it to type almost what you were about to. IMO chat-based question-asking when encountering unfamiliar language constructs or framework idioms is where LLMs shine in coding assistance.
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