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> They'd be 10x better than us already if task tedium was the problem... the areas where people think that LLMs excel at coding and don't like doing manually it
by weiliddat 2mo ago
> They'd be 10x better than us already if task tedium was the problem... the areas where people think that LLMs excel at coding and don't like doing manually it's usually because the human was inclined to slop out repetitive boilerplate and thought that was the only way.
There is so much work out there that is repetitive / boilerplate / tedium. If you get to personally work on interesting work more than 50% of the time (pre-LLM) I'd say your job is #blessed.
- pydry 2mo agoIME if a technical task is tedious and repetitive it is nearly always because the system was badly designed or because it wasnt automated properly. My job is automation and system design, so if I can't fix or work around these things that reflects poorly upon my skills. Some people treat writing tests as inherently boring because their test frameworks usually suck. If they don't suck and a test is a very close approximation of a spec, it's not boring at all, especially if you use it as a means of codifying a spec before implementation.
- weiliddat 2mo agoDon't disagree that that's the system not working well. You're lucky to be in a system that works out for you. Not everyone is in such a lucky position. LLMs help automate the tedium out of their job, and hopefully, have a bit more extra energy to make a better system within their immediate locus of control.