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Very whataboutism. Do you understanding why the person is making this argument? Or is everything just postmodern deconstructionism? Everything has some imperfe
by elicksaur 2y ago
Very whataboutism. Do you understanding why the person is making this argument? Or is everything just postmodern deconstructionism?
Everything has some imperfection, so LLMs are just fine... Completely missing the totally valid criticisms people have of the systems.
- lurking_swe 2y agocritical thinking is hard i guess
- Veserv 2y agoI like to call that “unary thinking”. Nothing is “perfect”, therefore everything is “imperfect”, so everything is the “same”. One category for everything, unary.
- sanswork 2y agoI'm not arguing LLMs currently generate great code. My argument is that it doesn't matter to the assertion that they make devs dumb. Tools being bad currently doesn't matter just like compilers being bad in the past doesn't matter.
- sanswork 2y agoYou're trying too hard to argue here. Every 5 years or so of my career something new has come out to make coding easier and every time a stack of people like yourself come out to argue it's making devs dumb or worse. LLMs still generate terrible output a lot of the time but they are improving. Early compilers generated terrible ASM a lot of the time to the point that it was common to use inline assembly in your code or rewrite parts later. Tools can improve, the point is that neither make the dev worse they just add to productivity. Writing code isn't my job it's a task I do to make the systems I design functional.