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> I think this is more of a criticism of bash than of Gemini. I can write correct bash; Gemini in this instance could not. > Also, I out-of-hand reject any cr

by thefz 1y ago

> I think this is more of a criticism of bash than of Gemini. I can write correct bash; Gemini in this instance could not. > Also, I out-of-hand reject any criticism of an AI that specifies only the brand ("ChatGPT") and not the specific model version Honestly I don't care, I opened the browser and typed my query just like anyone would. > PS: This is almost a one-liner in PowerShell, and Wonder how this is related to "I asked Gemini to generate a script and it was severely bugged"

jiggawatts 1y ago
> typed my query just like anyone would. Yes, well... are you "anyone", or an IT professional? Are you using the computer like my mother, or like someone that knows how LLMs work? This is a very substantial difference. There's just no way "anyone" is going to get useful code out of LLMs as they are now, in most circumstances. However, I've seen IT professionals (not necessarily developers!) get a lot of utility out of them, but only after switching to specific models in "API playgrounds" or some similarly controlled environment.
- thefz 1y ago
  > Yes, well... are you "anyone", or an IT professional? Are you using the computer like my mother, or like someone that knows how LLMs work? I have more than 15 years of programming experience. I do not trust the output of LLMs a single bit. This just proved my point. I honestly don't care if I used the "wrong" model or the "wrong" query, which was already quite descriptive of what I wanted anyway. No need to get super defensive, you can keep spending your time playing code golf with Gemini if you want. My experience just corroborates what I already thought; code generation is imprecise and error prone.
  - jiggawatts 1y ago
    > I honestly don't care if I used the "wrong" model or the "wrong" query If you used the wrong SQL query, would you expect the right answer? If you used the wrong database, would you expect your app to work well?
    - thefz 1y ago
      Not even remotely comparable

by thefz 1y ago

jiggawatts 1y ago

> typed my query just like anyone would. Yes, well... are you "anyone", or an IT professional? Are you using the computer like my mother, or like someone that knows how LLMs work? This is a very substantial difference. There's just no way "anyone" is going to get useful code out of LLMs as they are now, in most circumstances. However, I've seen IT professionals (not necessarily developers!) get a lot of utility out of them, but only after switching to specific models in "API playgrounds" or some similarly controlled environment.

thefz 1y ago
> Yes, well... are you "anyone", or an IT professional? Are you using the computer like my mother, or like someone that knows how LLMs work? I have more than 15 years of programming experience. I do not trust the output of LLMs a single bit. This just proved my point. I honestly don't care if I used the "wrong" model or the "wrong" query, which was already quite descriptive of what I wanted anyway. No need to get super defensive, you can keep spending your time playing code golf with Gemini if you want. My experience just corroborates what I already thought; code generation is imprecise and error prone.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  > I honestly don't care if I used the "wrong" model or the "wrong" query If you used the wrong SQL query, would you expect the right answer? If you used the wrong database, would you expect your app to work well?
  - thefz 1y ago
    Not even remotely comparable