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Imho the hordes of code monkeys see an incredible improvement in their productivity and keep boasting about it online which is inflating the idea that LLMs are
by lm28469 2y ago
Imho the hordes of code monkeys see an incredible improvement in their productivity and keep boasting about it online which is inflating the idea that LLMs are close to agi and revolutionizing the industry
Meanwhile people who work on things that are even slightly niche or complex (ie. Things which aren't answered in 20 different stack overflow threads, or things which require of few field "experts" to meet around a table and think hard for a few hours) don't understand the enthusiasm at all
I'm working on fairly simple things but in a context/industry that isn't that common and I have to spoon feed LLMs to get anywhere, most of the time it doesn't even work. The next few years will be interesting, it might play out as it did for plane pilots over relying on autopilots to the point of losing key skills
- theK 2y agoAnother aspect of this might be what I'm experiencing. I'm currently increasingly often confronted with overly bloated codebases that, with the added speed of llms / coding assistants, have reached levels of unmaintainability much faster than traditionally possible. Now, fixing those repos with LLMs fails miserably in my experience, so you have to invest hundreds of hours of senior engineer time to make the projects workable again, regardless of the novelty of the problem solved by that codebase. It also frequently makes the engineers pulled in to help miserable.