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Understanding has always been the bottleneck. That's why LLMs aren't actually helpful: they speed up the part which is easy (typing characters into your editor)
by bigstrat2003 2mo ago
Understanding has always been the bottleneck. That's why LLMs aren't actually helpful: they speed up the part which is easy (typing characters into your editor), but are neutral or even harmful on the part which is hard (understanding the problem and how best to solve it).
- stronglikedan 2mo agoThe part which is easy is still time consuming, so LLMs are helpful. They're just not a silver bullet.
- causal 2mo agoIt seems like humans have a limited "understanding budget" but LLMs force us to spend that understanding on waaaaay more code and projects than ever before.