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Yes! And more projects. And you have the freedom to try and fail. Was thinking of a comparison, cars are faster than walking. Imagine saying, no I prefer only
by randysalami 4mo ago
Yes! And more projects. And you have the freedom to try and fail.
Was thinking of a comparison, cars are faster than walking. Imagine saying, no I prefer only walking. It is healthier than sitting in a car and your legs will atrophy. That is very much true (and we can see the consequences in car dominated societies). Nevertheless, for many industries cars are very important. You don’t say, I would rather carry all these pallets by hand rather than use a forklift.
LLMs are similar in my mind. They turbocharge your output in all senses but is less holistic than hand-coding. Like cars, you are making a trade off but I don’t think it’s fully a replacement. We still walk with cars in our lives. And we don’t eschew cars because they are “worse” for you than walking. We adapt and make tradeoffs
- davidw 4mo agoYou only have as much freedom as you can buy from a handful of huge corporations.
- simonw 4mo agoOr download for free from half a dozen Chinese AI labs (at least for the moment.) ... or Google Gemma or Mistral.
- davidw 4mo agoAren't those widely regarded as 'not as good', because right now LLM's are a game of "who has the most resources wins"? And even those require very high end personal computers. The freedom pendulum looks like it swung away from individuals. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100
- simonw 4mo agoThey're not Opus 4.5 level yet, though the really big Kimi and DeepSeek v4 models (which need like 600+ GB of GPU-available RAM) aren't too far off.
- RetroTechie 4mo agoYou see more detail when you move slower.