Comment by ahartmetz
1 day ago
Now this isn't a killer argument, but your examples are about readability and safety, respectively - the quality of the result. LLMs seem to be more about shoveling the same or worse crap faster.
1 day ago
Now this isn't a killer argument, but your examples are about readability and safety, respectively - the quality of the result. LLMs seem to be more about shoveling the same or worse crap faster.
Have you tried an AI coding assistant, or is that just the impression you get?
I have seen the results of other people. Code LLMs seem to do some annoying stuff more quickly than manually and are sometimes able to improve prose in comments and such. But they also mess up when it gets moderately difficult, especially when there are "long distance" connections between pieces. That and the probably seductive (to some) ability to crank out working, but repetitive or partially nonsensical code, is what I call shoveling crap faster.
I dunno what to tell you, I am able to get consistently good quality work out of eg 3.7 sonnet and it’d saved me a ton of time. Garbage in garbage out, maybe the people you’ve observed don’t know how to write good prompts.
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