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Yes, but why is then everyone on HN claiming LLMs can code on expert level?
by randomNumber7 1y ago
Yes, but why is then everyone on HN claiming LLMs can code on expert level?
- danjc 1y agoFast for hammering out boilerplate, great for understanding something you've never done before. Much less value for field-frontier or novel work.
- __loam 1y agoI would posit that most people on hackernews are actually not that experienced.
- candiddevmike 1y agoTechbro astroturfing. You don't really see the same level of OMG AI on other forums like Reddit. Same thing happened with cryptocurrencies, HN was inundated with plugs for them and the same behavior was downvoted severely elsewhere.
- jeltz 1y agoBecause the people claiming so are actually bad at coding. I suspect a lot of them actually work in non-coding positions. And while I can for sure see how LLMs can be useful, they code at the level of a junior dev fresh out of college, if I am being generous.
- Workaccount2 1y agoMost of the software I use feels like it is coded by a junior dev fresh out of college anyway. Slow, buggy, bloated, gobbles memory...