Comment by guywithahat
6 days ago
I develop space-borne systems, so I can't use the best LLM's for ITAR/etc reasons, but this article really makes me feel like I'm missing out. This line in particular makes me wonder if my skills are becoming obsolete for general private industry:
> People coding with LLMs today use agents. Agents get to poke around your codebase on their own. They author files directly. They run tools. They compile code, run tests, and iterate on the results. They also:
Every once in a while I see someone on X posting how they have 10 agents running at once building their code base, and I wonder if in 3 years most private industry coders will just be attending meetings to discuss what their agents have been working on, while people working on DoD contracts will be typing things into vim like a fool
> while people working on DoD contracts will be typing things into vim like a fool
Forget LLMs, try getting Pandas approved. Heck I was told by some AF engineers they were banned from opening Chrome Dev Tools by their security office.
FWIW I think the LLM situation is changing quite fast and they're appearing in some of our contracts. Azure-provided ones, of course.
Frankly, as someone who is engaged in fields where LLMs can be used heavily.
I would stay in any high danger/high precision/high regulation role.
The speed at which LLM stuff is progressing is insane, what is cutting edge today wasn't available 6 months ago.
Keep up as a side hobby if you wish, I would definitely recommend that, but I just have to imagine that in 2 years a turnkey github project will get you pretty much all the way there.
Idk, that's my feeling fwiw.
I love LLMs but I'm much less confident that people and regulation will keep up with this new world in a way that benefits the very people who created the content that LLMs are built on.
> The speed at which LLM stuff is progressing is insane
You clearly haven't been following the space or maybe following too much.
Because the progress has been pretty slow over the last years.
Yes modals are cheaper and faster but they aren't substantially better.
Over the last years? As in two years or more? Could you explain that a bit more?
I consider "LLM stuff" to be all inclusive of the eco-system of "coding with LLMs" in the current threads context, not specific models.
Would you still say, now that the definition has been clarified, that there has been slow progress in the last 2+ years?
I am also curious if you could clarify where we would need to be today for you to consider it "fast progress"? Maybe there is a generational gap between us in defining fast vs slow progress?