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Thankfully my company isn't trying to inject AI into everything, and we're the better for it. I do use chatgpt a little in my job, but only a little. This gener
by poikroequ 2y ago
Thankfully my company isn't trying to inject AI into everything, and we're the better for it. I do use chatgpt a little in my job, but only a little. This generation of LLMs are simply far too unreliable to be depended upon for anything serious. AI is not going to make you more productive if you need to double check everything it outputs.
Intellij recently introduced a feature which uses AI to complete a line of code. Almost every time, it produced incorrect code, like it would generate the line of code and immediately there would be red squiggly underlines highlighting all the errors. It wasted my time and I'm more productive by turning that feature off.
No doubt AI will continue to improve, but the current state of the art simply isn't good enough to make most of us any more productive. Often the opposite.
I may be using the term AI too broadly here, but hopefully you understand I'm referring to LLM chatbots like chatgpt, and related technologies like copilot.
- williamcotton 2y agoThis generation of LLMs are simply far too unreliable to be depended upon for anything serious. I have managed to learn ways to make LLMs very productive. Most of this project was written by Claude where I acted as a very high level architect. https://github.com/williamcotton/guish https://github.com/williamcotton/guish It benefited from using a Claude Project and keeping the source up to date. It is also a good practice to bail on a thread quickly if it is being unhelpful. And the biggest tip is to be an overly pedantic technical communicator.