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The AI hype, like everything else in software, falls into one of two camps: 1. People that can’t do more than follow trends 2. Young people trying to predict
by austin-cheney 9mo ago
The AI hype, like everything else in software, falls into one of two camps:
1. People that can’t do more than follow trends
2. Young people trying to predict their own future
Everything else is the silent majority.
- 7777332215 9mo agoSo, you believe most software engineers are not using LLMs for coding? Personally I haven't, but I have used LLMs alongside traditional search engines. I'm starting to wonder if I should incorporate it... But I'm concerned about it stealing my code to train on.
- austin-cheney 9mo agoMy personal thinking is that AI is being implicitly forced on all of us via the tools we use. Otherwise, I suspect almost nobody would be using LLMs to write original code except for the people who never had the confidence to write original code in the first place. I also think there is a much larger productive grey zone where some more senior developers are learning to use LLMs to do non challenging tasks as a form of dumb automation. It’s hard to tell how much any of this really occurs because the AI companies and the shitty developers drastically inflate the numbers as a form of validation.