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Unreliable tools are utterly exhausting. > not much worse than a junior dev and 100x faster. Is there a greater hell than this!?

• thfuran 2y ago
  Worse than an intern and 1000x faster?
• thayne 2y ago
  At least with a junior dev, I can teach them how to do it better next time. Not so much with generative "AI".
  • anon7000 2y ago
    Not totally. But you might be surprised at the things you can do. Cursor has some template-like files where you can basically teach the AI “when we do X, do it this way.” Or you can change the global prompt to add the things it should keep in mind when working with you. If you actually take the time to tell it “hey, don’t do it this way,” it can definitely do it differently the next time. On top of that, is anyone training models on their own codebase, and noting to AI which patterns are best practice and which aren’t? There are a ton of ways to make it better than the baseline copilot experience
• nxpnsv 2y ago
  That's 100x more bugs to fix. Moreover, increasingly complex models produce bugs that are increasingly hard to spot and fix.
• stavros 2y ago
  "It makes lots of mistakes, but at least it makes them quickly!"
• Lio 2y ago
  If the old metric is right, that it is ten times harder to debug code than to write it, having something that writes buggy code 100x faster than you can understand it is a problem. Especially given that you can ask an LLM to optimise code and on multiple runs it can not tell if it's is improving or degenerating.
• heresie-dabord 2y ago
  > a junior dev and 100x faster. > Is there a greater hell than this!? Yes — junior management using LLMs and 100x more cocksure.
• bigstrat2003 2y ago
  I am of the firm belief that unreliable help is worse than no help at all. LLMs are unreliable help, therefore they are useless to me.
• daveguy 2y ago
  LLMs are the "move fast and break things" of AI.