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I did suspect that the triumphalist pronouncements, and even the seemingly honest and forthright deep dive, were a little premature. This is a key problem with
by abalashov 2mo ago
I did suspect that the triumphalist pronouncements, and even the seemingly honest and forthright deep dive, were a little premature.
This is a key problem with LLM exuberance: it's very tempting to trade on decades of experience in software using LLMs, because one is tired of typing and manual figuring-out, it seems to work if you're competent, and the payoff is essentially immediate. The real bill comes in the mail much later.
- yuye 2mo ago>because one is tired of typing I consider typing to be secondary to software engineering, but I do concede that for those cases that typing really is the bottleneck, LLMs can certainly be of value. Those cases are rare, though.
- abalashov 2mo agoOh, I 100% agree. I'm imagining the case where someone asks an LLM to do trivial things just for the novelty, or because they are fatigued of thinking + typing, but conceptualise the thing they are putting off as primarily a problem of typign and not thinking (I often do that).
- krupan 2mo agoThis is so real now that we have LLMs. The stuff I'm working on doesn't seem to exist in LLM training sets, but I still get tempted to try when I get tired of doing the tedious parts.