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No, this is the kind of thing LLMs are very good at. Knowing the specifics and details and minutiae about technologies, programming languages, etc.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
No, this is the kind of thing LLMs are very good at. Knowing the specifics and details and minutiae about technologies, programming languages, etc.
- bandrami 7mo agoOh Lord, no. Not at all. That's what they're terrible at. They are ok-ish at superficial overviews and catastrophically bad at specific minutiae
- darth_aardvark 7mo agoHonest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?
- satvikpendem 7mo agoThey note in another comment they don't even use search engines so I don't think they're the right person to ask regarding frontier models.
- darth_aardvark 7mo agoI'd ask them what tools they do use, but I doubt they'll see my comment; I'll see if I can mail it to them.
- bandrami 7mo ago(Why wouldn't I see your comment?) I just don't use the web much anymore because the experience has degraded so much over the past several years and it has become decreasingly useful at work as well. I do sometimes need to search for a document and find Kagi pretty good for that, but the old way of using a search engine to kind of explore and discover stuff just isn't viable anymore, unfortunately. I administer software for a living so I read a lot of documentation of that software but it comes with the software so I don't ever really need to search for it; I also read and participate in some forums and us the relevant IRC channels.
- bigstrat2003 7mo agoI have. And the people who say "use a frontier" model are full of it. The frontier models aren't any better than the free ones.
- satvikpendem 7mo agoWhat are you defining as free versus frontier, and for what purpose? For coding there is a big difference between Opus and GPT 5.3/4 versus Sonnet and other models such as open weight ones.