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I think the issue is far more psychological than technical personally. One of the issues we struggle with for our junior developers is that they are far more li
by devjab 2y ago
I think the issue is far more psychological than technical personally. One of the issues we struggle with for our junior developers is that they are far more likely to believe an LLM than what they might find Google programming. I do wonder why we’ve ended up with CS graduates who go to LLMs and Search engines before the official documentation which is often very, very good, but I guess that’s a different discussion.
I’m not personally against LLM assistance, I use it for programming and it has in many places replaced my usage of snippets completely. This is probably why I’m not really a fan of the “knowledge” part that LLMs are increasingly tasked to do. Because when you use them for programming you’ll get an accrue insight into how terrible they can be when they get things wrong.
- Eisenstein 2y agoAt this point I think what is happening some people either have a natural inclination or they spend time to learn how to use them productively, while others question their usefulness. People scoff at 'prompt engineering' but I see how some of my peers use LLMs and I think to myself 'how do they expect to get a good answer from that?' It doesn't help that google is now mostly full of SEO nonsense, and technical documentation is impenetrable when you are looking for something specific but don't know enough about the system to know how to look for it.