Comment by KoolKat23
1 year ago
you're both on the wrong wavelength. No one has claimed it is better than an expert human yet. Be glad, for now your jobs are safe, why not use it as a tool to boost your productivity, yes, even though you'll get proportionally less use than others in other perhaps less "expert" jobs.
In order for it to boost productivity it needs to answer more than the regular questions for the top-3 languages on Stackoverflow, no?
It often fails even for those questions.
If I need to babysit it for every line of code, it's not a productivity boost.
Why does it need to answer more than that?
You underestimate the opportunity that exists for automation out there.
In my own case I've used it to make simple custom browser extensions transcribing PDFs, I don't have the time and wouldn't of made the effort to make the extension myself, the task would of continued to be done manually. It took two hours to make and it works, that's all I need in this case.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
> Perfection is the enemy of good.
Where exactly did I write anything about perfection? For me "AIs" are incapable of producing working code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534233
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If you need to babysit it for every line of code, you're either a superhuman coder, working in some obscure alien language, or just using the LLM wrong.
No. I'm just using for simple things like "Help me with the Elixir code" or "I need to list Bonjour services using Swift".
It's shit across the whole "AI" spectrum from ChatGPT to Copilot to Cursor aka Claude.
I'm not even talking about code I work with at work, it's just side projects.
As for "using LLMs wrong", using them "right" is literally babysitting their output and spending a lot of time trying to reverse-engineer their behavior with increasingly inane prompts.
Edit: I mean, look at this ridiculousness: https://cursor.directory/