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I use copilot every day and every day I'm more and more convinced that LLMs aren't going to rule the world but will continue to be "just" neat autocomplete tool
by rowanseymour 2y ago
I use copilot every day and every day I'm more and more convinced that LLMs aren't going to rule the world but will continue to be "just" neat autocomplete tools whose utility degrades the more you expect from them.
- delichon 2y agoHere's an actual sentence I typed yesterday: "the previous three answers you gave me were hallucinations and i'm skeptical, so confirm that this answer is not another one." But then it actually gave me a different (5th) answer that was useful, and it's not clear that reading the docs would have been faster.
- nh23423fefe 2y agosame. i was trying to do something random with java generics today. i got 3 wrong answers in a row (that i could easily confirm were wrong by compiling) then the 4th worked. it was much faster than reading the jvm spec about wildcard generic subtyping relation (something ive read before but couldn't quote) and it taught me something i didn't know even though it was wrong