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> Perhaps you remember that language models were completely useless at coding some years ago, and now they can do quite a lot of things, even if they are not pe
by bigstrat2003 1y ago
> Perhaps you remember that language models were completely useless at coding some years ago, and now they can do quite a lot of things, even if they are not perfect.
IMO, they're still useless today, with the only progress being that they can produce a more convincing facade of usefulness. I wouldn't call that very meaningful progress.
- IshKebab 1y agoThey are very clearly not useless. You haven't given them a fair shake.
- drdeca 1y agoI’ve found them somewhat useful? Not for big things, and not for code for work. But for small personal projects? Yes, helpful.
- conradkay 1y agoIt's funny how there's a decent % of people at both "LLMs are useless" and "LLMs 3-10x my productivity"
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago> LLMs 3-10x my productivity x10 of zero is still zero, I guess.
- wvenable 1y agoI don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless. Perfect, no. But useless, also no.
- addaon 1y ago> I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless. Clearly, statistical models trained on this HN thread would output that sequence of tokens with high probability. Are you suggesting that a statement being probable in a text corpus is not a legitimate source of truth? Can you generalize that a little bit?
- wvenable 1y agoWho said anything about truth? We're talking about usefulness.