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> Experience Still Matters My personal opinion is that now experience matters a lot more. A lot of times, the subtle mistakes that LLM makes or wrong directio
by Aperocky 2y ago
> Experience Still Matters
My personal opinion is that now experience matters a lot more.
A lot of times, the subtle mistakes that LLM makes or wrong direction that it takes can only be corrected by experience. LLM also don't tend to question its own decisions in the past, and will stick with them unless explicitly told.
This means LLM based project accumulate subtle bugs unless there is a human in the loop who can rip them out, and once a project accumulated enough subtle bugs it generally becomes unrecoverable spaghetti.
- diggan 2y ago> LLM also don't tend to question its own decisions in the past, and will stick with them unless explicitly told. Dangerous as well, is that LLMs won't (unless aggressively prompted to) question your own decisions either, in contrast to something like a mentor which would help you discover a better way, if there is one.
- Aperocky 2y agoThat part didn't change with or without LLMs though. At least LLM is one more set of eye on my own decisions.
- warkdarrior 2y agoI've never seen anyone claim that coding LLMs are mentors, but rather junior devs there to help you. Taking them as mentors changes the task completely. LLM-as-junior-dev definitely requires you to know what you want the code to do and what you expect as quality output.
- onefreecomputer 2y ago[dead]
- MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago> LLM also don't tend to question its own decisions in the past An attribute I would like to see is the ability for an LLM to express justified self-doubt. Likewise (and perhaps directly related) would be the ability to self-critique prior to providing an answer. It's possible they are already steered to do this; if so I would like to see more of that dialogue surfaced to the user.