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The LLMs may be useful some day, if somebody can figure out how to stop them randomly generating complete garbage.
by incompatible 1y ago
The LLMs may be useful some day, if somebody can figure out how to stop them randomly generating complete garbage.
- petesergeant 1y agoIf you can't make LLMs do useful work for you today, that's on you.
- michelsedgh 1y agoI'm not trying to advertise anything here, but i'm telling you i can create apps that feel apple level quality and its not garbage. I built this in 2 weeks I had never known what swift is or anything. I wasn't a coder or app maker, but now I can build something like this in 2 weeks. Let me know if its garbage. I'll love criticism and I'll look for something else if its actually garbage.
- incompatible 1y agoSorry, I don't have an iphone or macos.
- incompatible 1y agoI'd be wary of LLM-generated code, even if it seems to work in test cases. Are you sure it doesn't go wrong in edge cases, or have security problems? If you don't even know the language, you can't do any meaningful code review.
- rvnx 1y agoSame with car drivers, but what about 30 years from now ?
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- incompatible 1y agoIf it's reliable in 30 years, I could take another look, in the unlikely event that I'm still alive.
- michelsedgh 1y agoHow old are u?
- incompatible 1y agoAbout 60.
- ranger_danger 1y agoSomehow I doubt celebrating ignorance and being unable to understand and debug your own code will work out in the long run.
- michelsedgh 1y agoIts not not understanding I need to understand it enough to make sure it works the way it should. Its not like every company is generating high quality level code. The apps are very shitty.
- theshrike79 1y agoYou don't need them to generate anything. If you need to jump into large, unknown, codebases LLMs are pretty damn good at explaining how they work and where you can find stuff. A lot faster than clicking through functions in an IDE or doing a desperate "find in project" for something. And just sticking a stack trace in an LLM assistant, in my opinion, in about 90% of the cases I've encountered will either give you the correct fix immediately or at the very least point you to the correct place to fix things.
- incompatible 1y agoPerhaps, but I thought the original poster was talking about replacing the "output" from arbitrary professionals, like doctors, lawyers or architects. I'm a bit wary of what may go wrong.
- incompatible 1y agoI'll accept there may be cases where you can take the LLM output and use it as a suggestion, or something to be carefully checked, and perhaps save some time. So there may be uses for them even if they sometimes generate complete garbage.