maybe i’m an edge case but for 99% of the day to day work i do (embedded, not x86), llms will confidently give me wrong code so many prompts in a row it’s a 0.5

maybe i’m an edge case but for 99% of the day to day work i do (embedded, not x86), llms will confidently give me wrong code so many prompts in a row it’s a 0.5x factor. when i venture out to something more normie, like webdev on either side, it does better but still takes more time than if i sat and did it myself once over. i’m not exceptional, but certainly understand everything that has been generated at any rate. i think LLMs are only a useful multiplier if you’re working on the plumbing parts, it’s never useful if you’re doing anything novel really. if this bothers you, i am sorry and i wish you the best with your reddit trained auto complete. i write new code