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> Impressive numbers, but have you ever tried to use one of these things to get actual work done? They're terrible at it! If you mean "have you tried using an
by edanm 2y ago
> Impressive numbers, but have you ever tried to use one of these things to get actual work done? They're terrible at it!
If you mean "have you tried using an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude for doing development work", then you're wrong.
I'm very confident in saying this, both because I personally use AI for programming and get a lot of value from it, and also because almost everyone else I know in real life also uses AI for programming.
But also because there are dozens/hundreds of accounts of very good developers getting a lot of value from AI in their work.
So at this point, insisting AI products are terrible doesn't say much about the AI products, so much as it says something about your ability to get value out of them.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 2y agoyou should probably disclose what you work on as this makes you not exactly impartial, it would be quite bad for you to criticize value of what you sell: > I'm the CEO of Hipposys Ltd, a boutique Data & AI Engineering shop (www.hipposys.com). We specialize in building RAG systems, Data Warehouses, and anything else related to the intersection between Data & AI. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at edan@hipposys.com, and we can see if we are a good fit!
- edanm 2y agoFirst of all, I'm not sure what you mean by "disclose" - you took that from my HN profile which is a click away. Do you think I should mention this in every comment I make about LLMs? Secondly, you're confusing cause and effect. I've been in the industry for more than twenty years working on many different things, and my company has done mostly data engineering work for most of its existence, the AI engineering is a relatively-new (past year or so) shift. I don't think highly of AI because I work in AI - I work in AI because I think highly of it!