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Interesting to see the narrative on here slowly change from "LLM's will forever be useless for programming" to "I'm using it every day" over the course of the p

• RHSeeger 2y ago
  I think a lot of people have always thought of it as a tool that can help. I don't want an LLM to generate "the answer" for me in a lot of places, but I do think it's amazing for helping me gather information (and cite where that information came from) and pointers in directions to look. A search engine that generates a concrete answer via LLM is (mostly) useless to me. One that gives me an answer and then links to the facts it used to generate that answer is _very_ useful. It's the same way with programming. It's great helping you find what you need. But it needs to be in a way that you can verify it's right; or take it's answer and adjust it to what you actually need (based on the context it provides).
• wiremine 2y ago
  > "oh sht, we're all out of a job next year" Maybe. My sense if we'd need to see 3 to 4 orders of magnitude improvements on the current models before we can replace people outright. I do think we'll see a huge productivity boost per developer over the next few years. Some companies will use that to increase their throughput, and some will use it to reduce overhead.
  • hollowturtle 2y ago
    Whenever I read huge productivity boost for developers or companies I shiver. Software sucked more and more even before LLMs, I don't see it getting better just getting out faster maybe. I'm afraid in most cases it will be a disaster