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I don’t even argue that they might get useful at some point, but when I point a mouse at a button and press the button it usually results in a reliable action.

I don’t even argue that they might get useful at some point, but when I point a mouse at a button and press the button it usually results in a reliable action. When I use the LLM (I have so far tried: Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Mistral) it does something but that something usually isn’t what I want (~the linked tweet). Prompting, studying and understanding the result and then cleaning up the mess for the low price of an expensive monthly sub leaves me with worse results than if I did the thing myself, usually takes longer and often leaves me with subtle bugs I’m genuinely afraid of growing into exploitable vulnerabilities. Using it strictly as a rubber duck is neat but also largely pointless. Since other people are getting something out of the tech, I’ll just assume that the hammer doesn’t fit my nails.

qwertox 2y ago
These are the beginnings and it will only improve. The premise is "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs", which I just can't share.
- alpaca128 2y ago
  When the mouse and GUI was invented nobody needed to say "just wait a couple years for it to improve and you'll understand why it's useful, until then please give me money". The benefits are immediately obvious and improve the experience for practically every computer user. LLMs are very useful for some (mostly linguistic) tasks, but the areas where they're actually reliable enough to provide more value than just doing it yourself are narrow. But companies really need this tech to be profitable and so they try to make people use it for as many things as possible and shove it in everyone's face[0] in hopes that someone finds a use-case where the benefits are indeed immediately obvious and revolutionary. [0] For example my dad's new Android phone by default opens a Gemini AI assistant when you hold the power button and it took me minutes of googling to figure out how to make it turn off the damn thing. Whoever at Google thought that this would make people like AI more is in the wrong profession.
  - kristiandupont 2y ago
    Cursor is at $100m ARR. People (users, not just investors) are giving them money, not because they expect to see value in a couple of years.

qwertox 2y ago

These are the beginnings and it will only improve. The premise is "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs", which I just can't share.

alpaca128 2y ago
When the mouse and GUI was invented nobody needed to say "just wait a couple years for it to improve and you'll understand why it's useful, until then please give me money". The benefits are immediately obvious and improve the experience for practically every computer user. LLMs are very useful for some (mostly linguistic) tasks, but the areas where they're actually reliable enough to provide more value than just doing it yourself are narrow. But companies really need this tech to be profitable and so they try to make people use it for as many things as possible and shove it in everyone's face[0] in hopes that someone finds a use-case where the benefits are indeed immediately obvious and revolutionary. [0] For example my dad's new Android phone by default opens a Gemini AI assistant when you hold the power button and it took me minutes of googling to figure out how to make it turn off the damn thing. Whoever at Google thought that this would make people like AI more is in the wrong profession.
- kristiandupont 2y ago
  Cursor is at $100m ARR. People (users, not just investors) are giving them money, not because they expect to see value in a couple of years.