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Just in the past couple months there have been a number of "I am a senior/principal engineer and this is how I use LLMs". I would agree that the tools are not o
by infecto 2y ago
Just in the past couple months there have been a number of "I am a senior/principal engineer and this is how I use LLMs". I would agree that the tools are not optimal yet but every iteration has improved for me.
Maybe whatever language you are coding it or whatever project you are working on is not a good fit? It is an equally perplexing situation for myself when I hear anecdotes like yours which don't align with my experience. The fact that you say everything is garbage calls into question either how you are using the tool or something else.
I can reliably use cursor's composer to reference a couple files, give a bullet list of what we are trying to do and point it to one of the better models and the output is junior engineer level or better output. When I say junior, I mean a junior who has experience with the codebase.
- andy24 2y agoWhat kinds of projects are you working on? My experience is jot very good with these tools (expanded in a sibling comment).
- infecto 2y agoGenerally a lot of web-dev which is where I would assume LLMs shine the best. I noted elsewhere but I think it depends a lot on the age of the product and the level of velocity. For early life products where the speed of your velocity matters, I think you can get the most benefit. The more mature the product and the slower the team implements features, the benefits are still measurable but not as high.
- andy24 2y agoAh yeah, I can totally see how it can be useful for churning put tons of code. Even without copy-paste, just generating a ton of references and rewriting/improving them. Anecdotally, I’ve tried asking deepseek to review a few files of my code — it wasn’t bad at all, though not without false positives.