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> Even code gen seems pretty underwhelming to most of the developers I've heard from that have used it - it may very well be extremely impactful to the next ge
by hyeonwho4 2y ago
> Even code gen seems pretty underwhelming to most of the developers I've heard from that have used it - it may very well be extremely impactful to the next generation of developers - but most current developers have already honed their skills to out-compete code gen in the low complexity problems it can competently perform.
I'm in academia, and LLMs have completely revolutionized the process of data analysis for scientists and grad students. What used to be "page through the documentation to find useful primitives" or "read all the methods sections of the related literature" is now "ask an assistant what good solutions exist for this problem" or "ask LLMs to solve this problem using my existing framework." What used to be days of coding is now hours of conversation.
And it's also above-average at talking through scientific problems.
- munk-a 2y agoI've heard something similar from the legal field as well. When you're dealing with massive amounts of unstructured documentation that needs to be searched LLMs seem to be doing a better job of indexing that information than conventional search indexers. I agree that it is having a pretty big impact in those fields where large amounts of unstructured data needs to be combed through.