Comment by diggan

> Can you imagine if Excel worked like this?

I mean, why would I imagine that? Who would want that? It's like the argument against legal marijuana, and someone replies "But would you like your pilot to be high when flying?!". Right tool for the right job, clearly when you want 100% certainty then LLMs aren't the tool for that. Just because they're useful for some things don't mean we have to replace everything with them.

> Also, each try costs money!

I guess you're using some paid API? Try a different way then. I mostly use the web UI from OpenAI, or Codex lately, or ran locally with my own agent using local weights, neither is "each try costs money" more than writing data to my SSD is costing me money.

It's not a holy grail some people paint it, and not sure we're across the "productivity threshold" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160664) yet, but it's worth trying it out probably before jumping to conclusions. But no one is forcing you either, YMMV and all that.