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>Boiling down to a couple cases would be more useful if you actually tried to disprove those cases or explain why they're not good enough. This reply is 4 comm

>Boiling down to a couple cases would be more useful if you actually tried to disprove those cases or explain why they're not good enough. This reply is 4 comments deep into such cases, and the OP is about a well educated person who describes their difficulties. >What's ironic about that? That's such a tiny imperfection. I'd argue it's not tiny - it highlights the limitations of LLMs. LLMs excel at writing basic code but seem to struggle, or are untrustworthy, outside of those tasks. Imagine generalizing his case: his wife goes to work and tells other bookkeepers "ChatGPClaudeSeek is amazing, it saved 2 hours for me". A coworker, married to a lawyer, instead of a software engineer, hearing this tries it for himself, and comes up short. Returning to work the next day and talking about his experience is told - "oh you weren't holding it right, ChatGPClaudeSeek can't do the work for you, you have to ask it to write code, that you must then run". Turns out he needs an expert to hold it properly and from the coworker's point of view he would probably need to hire an expert to help automate the task, which will likely only be marginally less expensive than it was 5 years ago. From where I stand, things don't look amazing; at least as amazing as the fundraisers have claimed. I agree that LLMs are awesome tools - but I'm evaluating from a point of a potential future where OpenAI is worth a trillion dollars and is replacing every job. You call it a tiny imperfection, but that comes across as myopic to me - large swaths of industries can't effectively use LLMs! How is that tiny?

Dylan16807 2y ago
> Turns out he needs an expert to hold it properly and from the coworker's point of view he would probably need to hire an expert to help automate the task, which will likely only be marginally less expensive than it was 5 years ago. The LLM wrote the code, then used the code itself, without needing a coder around. So the only negative was needing to ask it specifically to use code, right? In that case, with code being the thing it's good at, "tell the LLM to make and use code" is going to be in the basic tutorials. It doesn't need an expert. It really is about "holding it right" in a non-mocking way, the kind of instructions you expect to go through for using a new tool. If you can go through a one hour or less training course while only half paying attention, and immediately save two hours on your first use, that's a great return on the time investment.

Dylan16807 2y ago

> Turns out he needs an expert to hold it properly and from the coworker's point of view he would probably need to hire an expert to help automate the task, which will likely only be marginally less expensive than it was 5 years ago. The LLM wrote the code, then used the code itself, without needing a coder around. So the only negative was needing to ask it specifically to use code, right? In that case, with code being the thing it's good at, "tell the LLM to make and use code" is going to be in the basic tutorials. It doesn't need an expert. It really is about "holding it right" in a non-mocking way, the kind of instructions you expect to go through for using a new tool. If you can go through a one hour or less training course while only half paying attention, and immediately save two hours on your first use, that's a great return on the time investment.