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Until someone opens a 487 line PR, with a near-zero understanding of what the changes actually do. It's one thing to use LLM's to assist you in understanding t
by Alupis 2y ago
Until someone opens a 487 line PR, with a near-zero understanding of what the changes actually do.
It's one thing to use LLM's to assist you in understanding the codebase, and even helping to write some of the changes. It's another thing entirely to blindly trust the LLM - which is what ~90% of LLM users are going to do, especially given enough time.
We've all heard the tall-tales about people crafting prompts and getting complete video games as output, etc. They're nearly entirely BS, but people believe in that type of result and therefore will believe their results are just as good.
We see this now - the stories of non-programmers using ChatGPT to hallucinate-up poorly understood/written scripts/webpages and then getting really upset at their IT team for refusing to use it. "They're just afraid AI will steal their jobs!"...