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I do think some transitions are inevitable and not because AI must be used, but because once enough companies figure out where it genuinely improves efficiency,

I do think some transitions are inevitable and not because AI must be used, but because once enough companies figure out where it genuinely improves efficiency, the competitive pressure to follow suit becomes real

randomNumber7 2y ago
The same holds true for software developers imo. If you can't figure out how to use LLMs to improve efficiency, your likely a dinosaur of the past soon (unless you work on somethink __very__ specific where LLMs dont help much).
- dingnuts 2y ago
  I can barely think of any real application where they would help. I have a weekend project that's already too much context -- I asked Claude to change some Tailwind styles for me and it just shat up the whole file. and that was a toy! even if allowed, how is Claude going to help my at work where a single file in a large project, one of many, is tens of thousands of lines long? guess I'm a dinosaur
  - Jaygles 2y ago
    The best use I've gotten out of LLMs is as an autocomplete. I use Cursor at work, and it's pretty good at consistently calculating the next 10-20 characters I want to type out. Anything longer, save for some situations where the changes I'm making are super repetitive, the quality dives off a cliff. I've yet to coax out good/working code of significant complexity from these models without putting an amount of effort into prompting that would be greater than just working it through myself without any LLM assistance. The use I do get out of Cursor can save a lot of time for me, so I do think it's a productivity boost as is.
pydry 2y ago
It likely wont be from where you expect though. It isnt always a bad idea to wait until trendlines are clear. LLMs will not go away but it's still not at all clear what skills investment should be made to respond to that. Ive learned a ton about obsolete tech in the past and ive even learned a ton about LLMs in the last year that ended up becoming obsolete.

randomNumber7 2y ago

The same holds true for software developers imo. If you can't figure out how to use LLMs to improve efficiency, your likely a dinosaur of the past soon (unless you work on somethink __very__ specific where LLMs dont help much).

dingnuts 2y ago
I can barely think of any real application where they would help. I have a weekend project that's already too much context -- I asked Claude to change some Tailwind styles for me and it just shat up the whole file. and that was a toy! even if allowed, how is Claude going to help my at work where a single file in a large project, one of many, is tens of thousands of lines long? guess I'm a dinosaur
- Jaygles 2y ago
  The best use I've gotten out of LLMs is as an autocomplete. I use Cursor at work, and it's pretty good at consistently calculating the next 10-20 characters I want to type out. Anything longer, save for some situations where the changes I'm making are super repetitive, the quality dives off a cliff. I've yet to coax out good/working code of significant complexity from these models without putting an amount of effort into prompting that would be greater than just working it through myself without any LLM assistance. The use I do get out of Cursor can save a lot of time for me, so I do think it's a productivity boost as is.

pydry 2y ago

It likely wont be from where you expect though. It isnt always a bad idea to wait until trendlines are clear. LLMs will not go away but it's still not at all clear what skills investment should be made to respond to that. Ive learned a ton about obsolete tech in the past and ive even learned a ton about LLMs in the last year that ended up becoming obsolete.